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Quotes About Mask

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
~ William Golding
Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
~ William Goldman
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
~ William Hazlitt
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
~ William Hazlitt
He might be quick to smile and adept at handing out compliments, but his smile never reached his eyes.
~ David Lagercrantz
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
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
~ Dorothy Parker
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
~ Georges Bernanos
Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
~ Lloyd Alexander, The High King
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
~ John Dryden
People maybe smiling but look to the eyes because they can't hide the sorrow, pain, and heartache they're trying to hide behind their smile.
~ Karon Waddell
the more a person smiles... the more is the pain he resides...
~ shivangi lavaniya
He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Fake a smile. No one knows you're broken.
~ Demi Lovato
I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.
~ Corey Stoll
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.
~ Anchee Min
We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.
~ Régis Debray
On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
~ Anthony Hopkins
I am the false character that follows the name around.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.
~ Will Smith
In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die.
~ Frankie Boyle
I knew a girl so ugly that she was known as a two-bagger. That's when you put a bag over your head in case the bag over her head breaks.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones