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In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.

— Sabine Baring-Gould

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

— Colin Firth

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

— Geraldine Brooks

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

— Helen Rowland

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

— Georgina Chapman

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

— Virginia Woolf

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

— Octave Mirbeau

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

— Salman Rushdie

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

— Mark Twain

✗Opposing Perspectives

When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.

— Philip Treacy

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

— Paul de Man