Mask Quotes

729 Mask quotes by 560 unique authors

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of… — David F. Wells
I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true… — George Sand
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within… — Aberjhani
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not… — A. S. Byatt
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the… — Simone Weil
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort… — John Fowles
So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. — Suzanne Collins
...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue. This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day. I was… — Jim Butcher
I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves… — Eldridge Cleaver
Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what… — David Foster Wallace
Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair… — Robert Bloch
Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood… — Clive Barker
she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections.… — David Mitchell
We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. — Patrick Rothfuss
Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good? — Lloyd Alexander
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want… — Leonard Cohen
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. — Mary Balogh
She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if… — Megan Whalen Turner
Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears… — Alexandre Dumas
I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people… — Anne Lamott

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