Mask We Wear Quotes

#1. The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#2. How many of them have secrets they don't want the world to know? How many of them wear masks wherever they go? We're anything but typical.

Kelsey Sutton

#3. Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard

#4. When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.

Yusuke Kishi

#5. I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.

Rebecca Johns

#6. I like having a job where I get to wear a mask all day.

Laura Van Den Berg

#7. The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

Toni Cade Bambara

#8. 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

#9. Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of the human comedy.

Robert Harris

#10. You can play the part for so long, wear the mask, say what people expect you to say. Fight for as long as there is air in your lungs. Fly if you have wings. But you can never be free from someone who won't let you go.

Debbie Howells

#11. Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

Gail Sheehy

#12. I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.

Edwidge Danticat

#13. It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot ... or cosmic rays or a power ring ... Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

Mark Millar

#14. Another possibility is that it really is just me lying to myself, but that lie will become truth over time. People all over this city feign confidence, and that becomes something concrete. You can become the mask you wear on a day-to-day basis.

Wildbow

#15. We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#16. A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#17. America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

Malcolm X

#18. E wear the mask that grins and lies,
it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes-
this debt we pay to human guile;
with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#19. True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

Emery Lee

#20. Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

Richard Neal