Quote by Victor Hugo

“Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.”

— Victor Hugo

“In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances…

— Joseph Conrad

“what is all this life but a kind of comedy, wherein men walk up and down in one another's disguises and act their respective…

— Erasmus

“Words are like the delicate stitches in the dress you wear, holding the fabric of the garmet together. Without them, the dress and the…

— Lisa Mantchev

“Iago, on the other hand, seems to be malice personified, a manifestation of manifold vice with no discernible vestiges of grace.”

— Williiam Shakespeare

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

— Matthew J. Sullivan

“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

“because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin,”

— Greg Iles

“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal… unnable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself.…

— Jean Cocteau

“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought…

— Georges Limbour

“He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed…

— Daphne Du Maurier

“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed…

— Anne Hollander