Painted Veil

Famous quotes containing the words painted and/or veil:

“‘Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)