Discourse Quote by Dennis Potter

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

— Steven Millhauser

“Masks are arrested expressions and admirable echoes of feeling, at once faithful, discrete, and superlative. Living things in contact with the air must acquire…

— George Santayana

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“All words are masks, and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. —Steven Millhauser, “August Eschenburg”

— Matthew J. Sullivan

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

— Thomas Carlyle

“All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those…

— Emily Thorne

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

— Lord Chesterfield

“Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,”

— Gyomay M. Kubose

“As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of…

— Marcel Schwob

“We all wear masks, some with makeup some with smiles some with wives or husbands cars or clothes we hide from the world and…

— Atticus Poetry

“A man whose sense of shame has some profundity encounters his destinies and delicate decisions, too, on paths which few ever reach and of…

— Frederick Niestzsche