Quotes About Persona

People with a good opinion of themselves tend to enjoy a double life.

Mas enquanto vivemos não podemos escapar das máscaras nem dos nomes e pronomes: somos inseparáveis das nossas ficções- das nossas facções. Estamos condenados a inventar uma máscara e a descobrir, depois, que essa máscara é nosso verdadeiro rosto.

People will say anything to appear interesting.

Over time, the persona I assumed in her presence came to supplant my true self. It must have been then I first came to realize that for most people life was not a joy to be embraced with a full heart but a miserable charade to be endured with a false smile, a narrow path of lies, punishment, and repression.

Character is power, and is the best advertisement in the world.

Shakespeare says: God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be

Knowing at the same time that whatever people pretend to be, they become.

Puede que sea imposible disfrazarse con una identidad sin convertirse en lo que se finge ser.

You're just Ender in drag, doing his Valentine bit. You come off the stage and there's nothing there, it comes off like makeup and a costume.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

A mask tells us more than a face.

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth

Seth was a portable, external id. Not always comfortable or appropriate, but handy nevertheless.

Sometimes when I speak, I feel like I'm writing dialogue for the character of myself. I'm impersonating a normal human when really I'm a confused freak.

as if there's a clear distinction between real and fake for any of us. Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?

Oh come on—as if there's a clear distinction between real and fake for any of us. Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?

Dicey had a picture in her head of Sammy putting on a mask every morning, to wear all day long. It was a heavy iron mask, and he pulled it around his own face and bolted it closed.

Experience has taught me," says Sam Wood, "that it is safest to drop, as quickly as possible, people who pretend to be what they aren't.