Masquerade Quotes

54 quotes by 52 authors

As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem,… — W. S. Gilbert
Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected… — Tori Amos
I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the… — Alexander McQueen
English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their… — Pierre Daninos
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male… — Pam Gems
Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne — John Wayne
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. — Joshua L. Liebman
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. — Cesare Pavese
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. — Howard Thurman
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.… — Stephen Colbert
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility. — Diane Arbus
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past… — Janet Fitch
Here too itâ€™s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror showâ€¦… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire. — Jim Butcher
Yeah, I was at the Masquerade of the Damned. — Richelle Mead
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics donâ€™t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection… — Stephen Colbert
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. — Jodi Picoult
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
He had fangs. So what? Plenty of things not a Dark-Hunter have fangs, including Hollywood actors and kids playing vampire. You should have checked his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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