Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.
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.
His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.
Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.
Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.
In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.
God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.
You are at home when you're at a Black Veil Brides concert.
In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.
Nazi ideologies continue to the present day behind the veil of supposedly free societies and governments.
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
