Quotes About Mask

She didn't want the mask he wore around others. She wanted the true intamacy he had given her, the real Vittorio, the real man. He had offered her that man and she'd been so afraid she'd rejected him.

Is there any training that can prepare you for this moment, being face-to-face with a human monster, a man who seems to glide placidly through the everyday world in a baseball cap, smelling of Old Spice while concealing a gallery of horrors beneath his garage, in the back of his truck, inside his mind?

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

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

In the meantime, let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. This specter, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask.

evil condoned wears the mask of benevolence

Desconfiemos. El pasado tiene un rostro : la superstición, y una máscara : la hipocresía. Denunciemos el rostro y arranquemos la máscara.

She'd learned how to disappear in place long ago.

And I saw in them a hope...A hope that it was possible to have secrets, to mask one's true nature...and yet still to walk among men.

The dark emotions everyone hid in their depths weren't all of who they really were. They weren't their true selves.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a Vizor and a Face.

We are so used to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we disguise ourselves even to ourselves.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.

He had become a monster. You just couldn't see it...because it wore the face of a friend.

The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

Stressing that 'the many shall not be placed in danger by the few', the paper urged readers to wear a mask. 'Those who are not doing so are not showing their independence – they are only showing their indifference for the lives of others – for the lives of the women and the helpless little children who cannot help themselves.

Nathan had never liked anger. It seemed a barbaric and undignified emotion. He knew it always masked fear or hurt, and had often wished everyone could simply be sensible enough to cut out the middleman.

Nathan had never liked anger. It seemed a barbaric and undignified emotion. He knew it always masked fear or hurt, and had often wished everyone could simply be sensible enough to cut out the middleman. He

Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for gently and given gladly. It had happened so fast and sharp it had taken her breath. Perhaps she had done it wrong, somehow. She put the kiss away firmly to think about later. Instead, she smiled at him and pulled a carefree mask over her face.

Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.