Curtain Quotes

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)
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. View quote
Winston Churchill
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. View quote
Groucho Marx
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. View quote
François Rabelais
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. View quote
Robert Frost
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience. View quote
Arthur Sullivan
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve. View quote
Jerry Falwell
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year. View quote
Mitchell Zuckoff
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good! View quote
Florenz Ziegfeld
Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries. View quote
Florenz Ziegfeld
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. View quote
Maria Callas
The play is done the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompters bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task And when hes laughed and said his say He shows, as he removes the mask, A face thats anything but gay. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. View quote
Raymond Chandler
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain. View quote
Lionel Trilling
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write. View quote
Amy Poehler
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. (Oscar Wilde)
Let the thick curtain fall; I better know than all How little I have gained, How vast the unattained. View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. View quote
Sarah Bernhardt
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves. View quote
Herman Wouk
I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly. View quote
Pablo Picasso