Veneer

Famous quotes containing the word veneer:

“The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.”
—Derek Jarman (b. 1942)

“Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)