Top 21 A Masquerade Ball Quotes
#1. Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.
Freda Adler
#2. I don't know whose bright idea it was to turn the prom into a masquerade ball, but whoever it was, I'm going to kick them in the balls for it.
Melyssa Winchester
#3. So, according to Vedanta, the central doctrine of Hinduism, all bodies are the clothes of the one and only Self in its innumerable disguises, and the whole universe is a masquerade ball pretending to be a tragedy and then realizing that it's a ball.
Alan W. Watts
#4. Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?"
(Reported exchange with Winston Churchill)
Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor
#5. Wondering what it would have been like to go to the prom instead of a masquerade ball full of killers.
Susan Ee
#6. No man can know his deliverer, nor yet the thief of his soul. Their faces are covered; they swirl in the mob at the masquerade ball. Wine flows, and dance follows dance, and we are never certain of their names until that Midnight when all masks are removed
Robert V.S. Redick
#7. Philosophy has been a masked ball in which a religious image of humankind is renewed in the guise humanist ideas of progress and enlightenment. Even philosophy's greatest unmaskers have ended up as figures in the masquerade. Removing the masks from our animal faces is a task that has hardly begun.
John N. Gray
#9. Like attending the masquerade ball in Poe's story about the Red Death. You know, 'Come on, everybody! Kick out the jams, have another glass of champagne, and ignore all those people dropping like flies.
Stephen King
#10. Tomorrows only exist in the minds of dreamers and losers.
Robert Kiyosaki
#11. Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.
Sengcan
#12. Never contradict anybody," he was advised by Franklin, whom he admired above all men, though it was advice he hardly needed.
David McCullough
#13. I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.
Lauren Oliver
#14. The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#15. I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
Liam Neeson
#16. It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune.
Sun Tzu
#17. 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 decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.
Pierre Daninos
#18. I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
#19. I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.
Jim Butcher
#20. The danger of attending the extroverts' masquerade ball is that we surround ourselves with people who only like us for our disguise.
Michaela Chung
#21. I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas.
Alexa Vega
