Quotes About The Minister's Black Veil

#1. You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

Jonny Lee Miller

#2. In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.

Nell Blaine

#3. When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

Marian Keyes

#4. Thus from beneath the black veil there rolled a cloud into the sunshine, an ambiguity of sin or sorrow, which enveloped the poor minister, so that love or sympathy could never reach him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...

M. E. W. Sherwood

#6. Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister as his black veil to them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. One day, she explained, he'd pass by the window and, given the correct lighting, moment, and identical gesture, his shadow would match, for an instant, the painted one. His feet tingled as he stood uneasily at the edge of the flat, dark shape. 'It's only a matter of time,' she said.

Philip Graham

#8. Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as sissies if someone finds out they write poetry or own a painting. They're so timid about culture.

Vincent Price

#9. The world is my country, science is my religion.

Christiaan Huygens

#10. They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.

G.K. Chesterton