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Quotes About Mask

No one who now competes against Tiger Woods does so without wearing a similar competitive mask. Even as they try to forge ahead and
~ Glenn Stout
An ill man is worst when he appeareth good.
~ Proverb
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.
~ James Baldwin
I really mean that there was no love in the church. It was a mask for hatred and self-hatred and despair.
~ James Baldwin
I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
~ Victor LaValle
But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.
~ Peter Mayhew
Directors have this mask of being in control and in charge, but underneath, I'm terrified.
~ Marianne Elliott
Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.
~ Neil Strauss
We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
~ Karan Mahajan
I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.
~ Emun Elliott
Jeans and sneakers are definitely best for the haunted house. They usually won't let you in with a mask, even. It makes sense. They need to be able to tell who the rubes are. And, sneakers are good because the ground's uneven, and you're running and falling and stepping on the slower of your friends.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.
~ Idries Shah
I make a honey, egg white, and lemon face mask. It helps to reduce the appearance of sun spots and pimples; plus, it's so nutritious and natural, what could be better!
~ Devon Windsor
In the initial stages of my career, I was actually hiding behind a mask to hide who I was, but I was getting frustrated. I wasn't getting better bookings; I wasn't competing at bigger events.
~ Mustafa Ali
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
~ Arthur Herzog
People claim to be progressive by celebrating curvy bodies - but the standards for those hourglass shapes are equally rigid. They mask that with body positivity - but what about unconventionally attractive bodies?
~ Barbie Ferreira
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
~ Charles Bukowski
Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
~ David Gemmell
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
~ Alan Moore
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
~ William Shakespeare
A plastic man really, actually no man at all.
~ Duane Thomas
A great ruff brushed his firm jaw; his supple prowl had become a conscious elegance, as though he had put on majesty as a whore puts on paint, as a mask and as a weapon.
~ Teresa Denys
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
~ Terry Bradshaw