Mask Quotes

729 Mask quotes by 560 unique authors

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. — Nalini Singh
It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through… — Robert Green Ingersoll
You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing… — Francesca Lia Block
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom,… — Gaston Leroux
Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no… — Oscar Wilde
Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight… — Richard Bach
When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For… — George Orwell
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks,… — Desiderius Erasmus
You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more… — Italo Calvino
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask. — Alan Moore
I'm not scared anymore, I just ... I don't know. I think it's because I saw someone else, someone behind your face, like you'd taken… — Dan Wells
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. — Federico Fellini
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness) — Jean Sasson
Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it… — Buster Keaton
So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything… — Tessa Dare
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable. — Lionel Shriver
My own mask stayed just where it ought. I’ve had lots of practice. — Franny Billingsley
I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I… — Veronica Roth
..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of… — David Foster Wallace
Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays. I… — Gaston Leroux
Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there. — David Mitchell
He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of… — Ray Bradbury
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for… — Leonard Cohen

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