Desire Quote by Oscar Wilde

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself,…

— John Keegan

“Being a playwright, a film producer, a minister, a general; these are all masks one wears over one’s face in the society; masks don’t…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Of course, according to one theory a mask is apparently the expression of an extremely metaphysical aspiration to give oneself a kind of transcendental…

— Kōbō Abe

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

— Philip Roth

“A mask has but one expression, frozen and eternal, yet it is always and ever the essential expression, and to hide one’s telltale flesh…

— Tom Robbins

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

— James Ensor

There come a time, when good man must wear mask.

— Johnny Depp

For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society.…

— Rajneesh

“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

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man once tried to rip my face off because he thought it was a mask.

— Adam Pearson

“I do not think we change who we essentially are. We simply learn to wear masks that protect us from our own vulnerability and…

— Claudia Harbaugh