Mask Disguise Quotes

#1. We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

Regis Debray

#2. Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

William Congreve

#4. I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

Paul Reubens

#5. At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a
beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I
don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university
students marching with you. Toward
A necessity which is not love but is a name.

Jack Spicer

#6. I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

Ala Bashir

#7. Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature - a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.

Ashim Shanker

#8. Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#9. Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

Wes Fesler

#10. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

#11. Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene 2.

Robert W. Chambers

#12. We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

William Graham Sumner

#13. The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

Katharine Hepburn

#14. The Vampire Masquerade
Mask of jewels across a pale face
Disguise the evil that makes no mistakes
Drops of red blood on delicate white lace
The body lies still and only time awaits.

S.L. Ross

#15. A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.

Jay Leno

#16. Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Dennis Potter

#17. I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. I wanted to tell jokes, but I didn't give a fuck about the punchline.

Harmony Korine

#18. No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

Arthur Schnitzler

#19. Of course, according to one theory a mask is apparently the expression of an extremely metaphysical aspiration to give oneself a kind of transcendental disguise, for the mask is not simply something compensatory.

Kobo Abe

#20. If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.

Jimi Hendrix

#21. She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen the creature beneath. And she was afraid that I could take away even her mask, forever, with my power.

Jim Butcher

#22. Get some sleep, Secretary General, get some sleep. Revolution can wait till the morning.

Mohammed Hanif

#23. I took on the shape of a girl.

Emma Cline

#24. Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

Deepak Chopra

#25. When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

Marguerite Young

#26. A mask is not to disguise who you are but to show who you really are.

Chloe Thurlow

#27. And who shall you be once you don your grand disguise?"
"La luna," she said with a smile.
"Then I shall be la notte to your moon" Archer lifted the hard black mask he held and slipped it over his thinner silk one

Kristen Callihan

#28. The mask in which you choose to disguise yourself uncovers who you subconsciously are or want to be. Masks reveal in the eyes the face that lies hidden as if the mask is a dark glass mirroring your soul.

Chloe Thurlow

#29. Bet you didn't see that coming," she murmured.
"I didn't, no. If I'd realized rapping your head would turn you into an insatiable sexual maniac who'd use me so brutally, I'd have cold-cocked you long before this.

J.D. Robb

#30. Be a man! Put on a mask.

Ljupka Cvetanova