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We are spirits clad in veils.
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
— Richard B. Garnett
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
— William Wordsworth
All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
— Aaron Hill
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
— Joseph Campbell
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
— Antonio Machado
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
— Idries Shah
We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.
— Alexander Rodchenko
When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.
— Michele Cassou
Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted.
— Martha Grimes
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
— Honore De Balzac
Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
— Sri Aurobindo
The soul is covered by a thousand veils.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
— Blaise Pascal
Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longingthat was me. — Louise Erdrich
Secrecy is for the happy,misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
— Jean Racine
I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.
— Erskine Childers
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
— Lord Chesterfield
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
— Marion Woodman
Modesty in women has two special advantages,it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
— Sri Aurobindo
The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
— Khalil Gibran
The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.
— Howard W. Hunter
A redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared it's nocturnal mysteries.
— Julien Gracq
Francis Bacon somewhere remarks that politeness veils vice just as dress masks wrinkles.
— John Doran
But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.
— Claude Debussy
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The veil of money has never been about how much money you have but about how much money has you.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.
— Louis Kronenberger
When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.
— Charles Spurgeon
We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.
— Rose Philippine Duchesne
The reproduction ofwhat the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
— Swami Vivekananda
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
She was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets.
— Virginia Woolf
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
— Swami Vivekananda
Now the time is come,That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
And let her head fall into England's lap. — William Shakespeare
No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.
— Melanie Phillips
You are at home when you're at a Black Veil Brides concert.
— Andy Biersack
Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.
— Edward Abbey
![Veils Quotes By Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: [Turkish women] had lived free of the veil](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/veils-quotes-by-mustafa-kemal-ataturk-221247.jpg "Veils Quotes By Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: [Turkish women] had lived free of the veil")
[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Midnight,strange mystic hour,
when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.
— Honore De Balzac
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
— Octave Mirbeau
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.
— Mikhail Naimy
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
To raise the veil. To see what you're saying goodbye to.
— Louise Gluck
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
— Honore De Balzac
Necessity is God's veil.
— Simone Weil
When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.
— Wilford Woodruff
A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds.
— Moonshine Noire
You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed through veils. How else can it be seen?
— Suji Kwock Kim
While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.
— Robert E. Howard
Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.
— Mahmud Shabistari
No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either
— Shirin Ebadi
Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.
— Kevin Mitnick
![Veils Quotes By Armineonila M.: [Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/veils-quotes-by-armineonila-m-663452.jpg "Veils Quotes By Armineonila M.: [Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad")
[Y]ou, one day, will knock lips with Turkish-coffee-clad veils whose beds our kin must tuck in misty-eyed.
— Armineonila M.
Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.
— Loreena McKennitt
Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
