Mask Quotes · Page 21

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

— Mason Cooley

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

— Sam Shepard

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

— William Butler Yeats

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

— Philip Roth

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

— Tracy Chapman

Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off...

— Anonymous

I get really puffy eyes, so I'm all about a good puffy-eye mask.

— Karrueche Tran

Some days I'll put on a face mask for 30 minutes, and then I'll wash it off in the shower.

— Karrueche Tran

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

— Jean Baudrillard

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a…

— Joseph Conrad

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not…

— William Butler Yeats

If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid.…

— Jacques Plante

I love a sleep mask, havin' total darkness is essential for good sleep, you know, cuttin' that light out of your eyes.

— Tony Gonzalez

I was given a mask of myself by Frances Barber when we opened 'Julius Caesar.' I looked much younger and prettier. Wearing…

— Phyllida Lloyd

To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

[Democrats] have gotten rid of the mask, and they can't help themselves. And they are exposing who they really are every day…

— Rush Limbaugh

All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it…

— Martin Luther

“He murmured, 'You did it on purpose.' I trembled all over. I might have guessed that someone would detect that I had…

— Osamu Dazai

For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I…

— Cate Blanchett

For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and…

— Anonymous

It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes…

— Asger Jorn

At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it.…

— Gerard Butler

The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung…

— Omar N. Bradley

When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.

— Yusuke Kishi

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

— Doris Lessing

Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

— Cyril Connolly

“the truth of who you are actually releases you from the masks you have claimed in lower nature.”

— Paul Selig

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

— William Congreve

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

— Suzanne Collins

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

— Deepak Chopra

During Fashion Week, my skin becomes sensitive, so I always put on a sheet mask before I go to bed.

— HoYeon Jung

The mask that people wear in society are always more interesting than the person hidden behind it.

— Oscar Wilde

...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

— Anne Lamott

“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”

— Marie Lu

Sometimes we just have to remove their mask and show everyone their true face.

— Danny Tagle

If everybody likes you and nobody hates you, you should check whether you wear a mask or not.

— Jean Norvy

Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.

— Erving Goffman

“For him, politeness was a surgical mask, something he slipped on before he took out his scalpel.”

— Anthony Horowitz