Top 100 The Mask Quotes
#1. The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
William Golding
#2. I didn't sell my soul to the devil or dance with her on a clear night. I ran up to the devil and I stole the mask she wore and I've worn it comfortably for quite some time.
Sarah Noffke
#3. Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#4. I know that a man who tries to convert me to any cause
is actually at work on his own conversion,
unless he is looking for funds under the mask of some fancied nobility.
Ben Hecht
#5. What can I say? Chicks dig the mask.
Kane
#6. To withstand the nothing, it really takes everything.
But it can also take just one thing: a heartbeat in truth beside you; when the mask has been removed.
(Soar)
Soar
#7. When you choose a villain, you need something visually exciting. And when you have someone like Jamie Foxx ... you want to make sure the guy with the mask and the guy without the mask are delivering two different performances.
Avi Arad
#8. 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
#9. [ ... ]love strips the mask from each of us, and we must endeavor for those we love to put the mask on so that it can be taken off again. For if there is no mask to start with, there is no pleasure in removing it, is there?
Kobo Abe
#10. True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)
Emery Lee
#11. 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
#12. Love has a powerful way of removing the mask we all insist on wearing.
Jessy
#14. Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
Washington Irving
#15. The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
David Arquette
#16. I smiled at his hair. It was standing out all over the place, wherever it had escaped the elastic bands holding the mask on. "Take
Elle Casey
#17. When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
John Cusack
#18. Only sometimes Sansa found it hard to tell where the man ended and the mask began.
George R R Martin
#19. Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you're only pretending. Then you're sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#20. You can see from his form, posture, and the lazy way he carries his muscled body, that behind the mask is a man who sees more pussy than a pack of Tampax. Godfrey
L.J. Shen
#21. I bare my nakedness to the world that the world may see who I am; not the mask that hides my flaws, not the mask that hides my beauty. I bask in the light and I take off the mask!
Jocelyn Soriano
#22. If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.
Jacques Plante
#23. I hate smoking sections. Unless we're talking about the movie 'The Mask' with Jim Carrey. Then the smoking section is my favorite part.
Harris Wittels
#24. The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.
Rene Auberjonois
#25. The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes.
Moira Young
#26. It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.
David Lloyd
#27. Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask ... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.
William Merritt Chase
#28. So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
Lucretius
#29. He saw the Queen and saw her for the first time with the mask of friendship removed, a figure suddenly as ruthless and terrible as ever her father had been ... All their dazzling intimacy was an illusion, a mere straw in the wind, for in the last resort he was but a subject, as her mother had been.
Susan Kay
#31. Counterfeits of the past, under new names, may easily be mistaken for the future. The past, that ghostly traveler, is liable to forge his papers. We must be wary of the trap. The past has a face which is superstition, and a mask, which is hypocrisy. We must expose the face and tear off the mask.
Victor Hugo
#32. Nothing is more irreligious than to persecute the seekers of truth in order to keep up absurdities and superstitions of bygone ages. Nothing is more inhuman than the commission of 'devout cruelty' under the mask of love of God and man.
Kaiten Nukariya
#34. Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.
Vicki Pettersson
#35. Behind the mask Jackaroo wore, there could be a face of bone, its flesh long since eaten away. Jackaroo could fight as a trained soldier, with swords and shield; he could ride a horse like a Lord; and he had the knowledge of letters which only the Lords held.
Cynthia Voigt
#36. Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...
Mary Renault
#37. Because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
Anne Lamott
#38. Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Lord Chesterfield
#39. All existence for a man turned away from the eternal is but a vast mime under the mask of the absurd. Creation is the great mime ... it is itself an absurd phenomenon.
Albert Camus
#40. 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
#41. The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
Edgar Quinet
#42. The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.
Kobo Abe
#43. Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.
Florinda Donner
#44. When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.
Qiu Xiaolong
#45. For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.
Paulo Coelho
#46. A man is never more himself than when he is alone ... That is when the mask comes off. Shut the door, and the persona drops away. Alone, you reveal your soul.
J. Kenner
#47. Most of our occupations are low comedy ... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.
Michel De Montaigne
#48. The mask-face was very close to the face of Pennywise, the clown in the movie. The
Stephen King
#49. Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.
Khalil Gibran
#50. You can study a face all you want, but you never really know what lies beneath the mask.
Tess Gerritsen
#51. Organized crime is nothing more than capitalism with the mask of respectability removed. - Dave Mazza
J.D. Chandler
#52. Those who unconsciously despair yet put on the mask of optimism are not necessarily wise. But those who have not given up hope can succeed only if they are hardheaded realists, shed all illusions, and fully appreciate the difficulties.
Erich Fromm
#53. When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.
Stewart O'Nan
#54. Some of us wear the mask prouder than others.
Lady Gaga
#56. The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born
Martina Mcbride
#57. CAMPBELL: All poets. Poetry is a metaphorical language. MOYERS: A metaphor suggests potential. CAMPBELL: Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that hides behind the visible aspect. The metaphor is the mask of God through which eternity is to be experienced.
Joseph Campbell
#58. The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.
Owen Strachan
#59. People are afraid of change. Change is inevitable to life. Change actually has the mask of pushing us out of comfort zone. Every time we learn, go through life experiences our perception/Emotional chemistry is changing. Embrace change because we are becoming a more polished version of ourselves.
Matthew Donnelly
#60. Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase ...
Fabio Novembre
#63. Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty
Honore De Balzac
#64. 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
#65. I stared at him in stunned silence. This was not the Nathan I knew. The mask was gone, and for the first time I was seeing the true Nathan without any inhibitions. He was raw and lay bare before me.
He was stunning. More beautiful than usual in his agony.
K.I. Lynn
#66. I am a she. The mask is a he, or is actually gender-neutral. People love the character.
K. Guillory
#67. Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#68. Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.
J.G. Ballard
#69. It was not the mask I was afraid of ... but of what lay behind the mask. The eternal source of all fear, all horror, all real evil, man himself
John Fowles
#70. Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
Alexandre Dumas
#72. Shred the fake mask of humility into pieces. And put on the mask of arrogance if needed.
Abhijit Naskar
#73. The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
William Penn
#74. You are a mask; behind the mask there is the universe! When you are enlightened, mask goes, you go, you disappear and people does not see you anymore, they see the universe when they look at you! They talk to universe when they talk with you! You are a mask till you are enlightened!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. Like the dandelion clocks, all blown and dispersed on the wind, my life has evaporated into the emptiness of a dream; for which I blame my betrayer, that dubious stranger wearing the mask of a once-loved face.
Anna Kavan
#76. Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#77. You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
Helena Bonham Carter
#78. I am always wearing a mask, playing a character. Perhaps because I'm afraid of what will be under the mask, something ugly maybe or, worse, nothing at all. The
Anna Snoekstra
#79. Aubrey - "Apparently she wears a black leather catsuit and a golden mask."
Irene - "Any details on the mask?"
Aubrey - "I think people are usually too busy looking at the black leather catsuit.
Genevieve Cogman
#80. And when a joke is powerful enough, you don't laugh, you scream. Yes, when the mask slips you scream out loud for all the terror in the world, and I screamed then.
Matt Haig
#81. Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
Lloyd Alexander
#82. evil condoned wears the mask of benevolence
Victor Hugo
#83. Do they LOVE you,
or the MASK you put on everyday?
Anonymous
#84. She felt her heart beating in her throat when the man in the mask began to chant again.
Nora Roberts
#85. I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.
Richard O'Brien
#86. Take special note of how people respond to stressful situations - often the mask they wear in public falls off in the heat of the moment.
Robert Greene
#87. I watched his face put on that mask of bluff, goodnatured tolerance which is the mask of corruption in this particular time (for
Doris Lessing
#88. Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham
#89. In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.
Philippe Halsman
#90. Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind.
Meher Baba
#91. It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian
#92. It's amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.
Philip Roth
#93. When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
Philippe Halsman
#94. Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civility.
She could sip from that cup.
It is his presumption that deters her: his belief that he has already caught Maud in his paw.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#96. Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.
Thomas Huxley
#97. When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#98. That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and we are merely the actors of that show, having entirely identified ourselves with the masks and fooling not only others, but first of all ourselves.
Arvydas Sliogeris
#99. Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Robert Motherwell
#100. There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.
Dion Fortune
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