Quotes About Mask

He had a high-cheekboned face with steady gray eyes, a broad-bridged aquiline nose and a wide, thin mouth. It was the countenance of a man who was clever, as ruthless with himself as with others, possessed of courage and humor, who hid his weaknesses behind a mask of wit—and sometimes of affected coldness.

Use the power inside you. Don't abhor it anymore. Use that power! And when they see you in the streets above, use that power to make your face a mask and think as you gaze on them as on anyone: beware.

But you covered yourself with a concealing bulk, didn't you? To hide from whom?

God help her, she wanted him. Not because of his beauty, but because of the odd gentleness in his manner when she didn't expect it, because of the lost look in his green eyes, because of the way he made her feel with just a few words, because of the way he made her melt when he touched her. The jaded rake he presented to the world was just as much a mask as her own was.

The beast in man had lifted its mask and the time of euphemistic niceties and rationalizations was over.

A singular hoax was displaying the agent wearing a paper bag mask, posing as an informer. "There's no doubt that they think we have a rat-snitch fingering them," Richards rejoiced.

handsome was merely a mask over a truth, like spectacles. And the truth was always more interesting than anything else.

He felt her hands reach for his mask, untying it and removing it. He let her but stiffened when she ran a hand over his scarred cheek. "Did I hurt you?" "No. But you needn't touch me there." "I want to touch you everywhere." He stilled, allowing her to caress his scar then place a soft kiss on it. He had the sense that she cherished him, every part of him, even the damaged, scarred parts he didn't want anyone to see.

I know it all, and I still love you. That is the convicting, convincing, liberating truth that comes from an encounter with Christ: all is known; there is no need to pretend anymore. I wrestled with that truth. It's hard to lay aside a mask when it looks just like you, and you have worn it for so long that you can't remember what you look like without it.

Mardi Gras, baby. Mardi Gras. Time when all manner of weird shit cuts loose and parties down.

Life can be considered as a huge wardrobe, with so many dominos hung in its cupboards, one domino per year. Now I don't see why I couldn't change my mask in this wardrobe even twice a day.

People do not know what an absolute extremist left-wing radical Tim Kaine has been his entire life and they're going to do everything they can to try to mask and cover that up .

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

With your newfound camouflage skills, I'd probably lose you in there.

Cualquiera puede representar cualquier cosa a la luz del día. Pero sólo por la noche, después de que el mundo se ha oscurecido, aparece nuestro yo real.

The Devil's most devilish when respectable.

The Mebd's three knights flanked her chair; Will caught a glimpse of Kit's pouting lower lip below the black velvet of his mask and bit his own lip hard at an utterly inappropriate flaring of desire.

It wasn't difficult to discover where the courtesan in the domino mask lived: not far from the murdered boys, which was as Sebastien would have wagered.

A shape was only a mask, to be discarded upon an instant.

His life in general had been a neatly wrapped package of lies.

How can I look so real everyday, when really I'm just a cardboard cut-out image of myself-lamenated in coats of artifical happiness with shiny plastic all around- so quite I should be a mime- I wrap my arms around myself when I go out in the wind because I don't know how to make sure that I won't blow away- and I'm standing with my eyes closed so I won't have to see the ground when I fall...

This is my social face," he said lightly. "Don't confuse it with the animal beneath.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.