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Top Veneer Quotes
 
 
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
George Washington Carver
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore De Balzac
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.
Edward Hopper
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!
Michael Flanders
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.
John McGahern