Curtains Quotes

• Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Twilight, Night

  Anne of Green Gables ch. 17 (1908)

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• Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Future, Glowing

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• An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

  Maria Callas

  Long, Imagination, House

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• We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Shows, Draws

  William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno (2004). “Twelfth Night Or What You Will”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• ... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Sigh, Folds

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• If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

  Bill Shankly

  Garden, Draws, Bottom

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

  Maria Callas

  Speak

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• Fall the deep curtains,
  delicate the weave,
  fair the thread.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Fall, Thread

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.476, New Directions Publishing

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• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

  John Steinbeck

  Change, Men, Wind

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.57, Penguin

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• There is someone who looks after us
  from behind the curtain.
  In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.

  Rumi

  Shadow, Looks, Behinds

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• Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

  Francois Rabelais

  Funny, Farce

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• Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.147, Random House

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• My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

  T. S. Eliot

  Trouble, Up And Down

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• Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

  Douglas Horton

  Evil, Spirit, Window

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• There's no twilight in the tropics. Night falls like a curtain.

  Waldemar Young

  Fall, Twilight, Night

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• Joy and truth both have a way
  of peeking through any dark curtain.

  Margarita Engle

  Dark, Joy, Peeking

  Margarita Engle (2009). “Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba”, p.73, Macmillan

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• The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there

  John Frusciante

  Moving, Causes, Sometimes

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• When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

  Harold MacMillan

  Fall, Going Away, Actors

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• Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Anxiety, Tense

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• It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

  Kate Chopin

  Fire, Light, Glowing

  Kate Chopin (2015). “The Awakening & Other Short Stories”, p.201, Booklassic

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• I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

  Francois Rabelais

  Death, Nature, Farce

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• And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Order, Play, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

  George M. Cohan

  Worried, Buried, Curtain Call

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• A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Tranquility, Moments, Fluttering

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• From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Iron, Trouble

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.7, Best Books on

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