Curtain Quotes

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of madness.

Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.

Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.

He knew them only ‘in Braille’ – the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial – after a life like that?

For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal