However we may conceal our passions under the veil. . . there is always some place where they peep out.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.
Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.
The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity. ’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.
Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.
The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.
. . . Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she is to reconstruct what she has been, and to prophesy what she yet shall be. Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows more beautiful, august, and wonderful, with every barrier that is withdrawn.
Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.