Mask Quotes

729 Mask quotes by 560 unique authors

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. — Mike Tyson
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when… — Paul Valery
All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain. — Iyanla Vanzant
I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You… — Gerard Way
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to… — David Wilkerson
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask. — Fareed Zakaria
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I… — Oscar Wilde
This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over… — Willa Cather
The trouble with a mask is it never changes — Charles Bukowski
behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. — Paulo Coelho
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people… — Charles Bukowski
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. — Cornel West
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially… — Gregory Maguire
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in… — Alan Moore
Writing is both mask and unveiling. — Elwyn Brooks White
Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him — Baroness Orczy
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. — Steven Millhauser
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self. — William Butler Yeats
I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no… — Mary Roach
When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about… — Jodi Picoult
If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you… — Banksy

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