Veneer Quotes

Veneer Quote of the day

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

If you hate something, you hate it, and if you like something or somebody, you like it, but tell the truth. And most celebrities have that thin veneer that they will not break for you.

Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.