Veneer Quotes
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Veneer Quotes & Sayings
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I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.
— Steven Klein
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
— Honore De Balzac
Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.
— Rainbow Rowell
You've crafted this bored veneer, but you're always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter.
— Stephanie Perkins
Well, we're all animals, really
just with a veneer of civilization. — Michelle Cooper
just with a veneer of civilization. — Michelle Cooper
Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.
— Andrew Hacker
Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.
— Cinda Williams Chima
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
— George Santayana
Some people's elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood - common
— D.E. Stevenson
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.
— Stephen Merchant
Perceptive observers saw civilization thinned to a mere veneer, with barbarism surging just beneath the surface, straining for release.
— Bruce Brander
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
— Douglas Kennedy
Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
— Camille Paglia
Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.
— Bill Moyers
Beauty is hardly a virtue, for the disease of insecurity lurks not too far behind its veneer.
— Gasmaskman
Good design is not an applied veneer.
— Raymond Loewy
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
— George Bernard Shaw
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
There's such a fragile, thin veneer of illusion between the words "together" and "alone".
— Bradley Somer
I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.
— Bryan Batt
In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.
— Rob Thomas
The veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin
— Karin Tansek
War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.
— Mark Baker
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
— Sarah Hall
Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I've always been able to see the savageness beneath the veneer of society. It's not so very far beneath the surface, no matter where you go.
— Lily King
Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.
— Charlotte M. Mason
Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."
— Dennis Miller
Yet I, too, know how hard it is to peel back the veneer of your life, and to peek at the real. It's like
— Jodi Picoult
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
— George Washington Carver
The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.
— Travis Luedke
She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer.
— Anna Godbersen
Falling in love can happen to complete strangers. Staying in love requires being best friends and that means accepting the person beneath the veneer.
— Ellen Hopkins