Masked Quotes
45 quotes by 41 authors
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have him [God] before our eyes, masked in the sacred Host
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands of the ninja…
— Jeff Cooper
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Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act…
— Peter Enns
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history…
— Louis Althusser
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As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man…
— David Ogilvy
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A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
— William Wycherley
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I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but…
— Lana Del Rey
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Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue…
— Jay Griffiths
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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
— Edmund Burke
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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to…
— Luc de Clapiers
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Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a…
— Thomas Aquinas
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When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from…
— Junot Diaz
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There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to…
— James Beard
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There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and…
— C.S. Lewis
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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
Who Wrote These Masked Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 45 Masked Quotes, led by these top contributors: