Famous quotes containing the words painted and/or veils:
“Like the moon her kindness is.
If kindness I may call
What has no comprehension in’t,
But is the same for all
As though my sorrow were a scene
Upon a painted wall.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“How these vain ornaments, how these veils oppress me!”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)