Quotes About Masquerade

Who does not end up a female impersonator?

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

After all, he reflected, his whole uniform was a disguise, his whole new calling a masquerade.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

The next was a girl with her face and arms painted white, in a gown decorated with gilt to mimic golden thread. Gilded, too, was her crown of feathers and rooster heads, and in her hands a scepter that looked more like a feather duster.

You thought we were the most outstanding students in our freshman class. You were wrong. We are pretenders.

Myth is history in a masquerade costume. Peel away the fantastical facade, and you will always find a core of truth. Adrien Morel

Yes, Father, I have played so many parts that I shall not fail now but enjoy the masquerade, since I have a partner in it

Musgrave and Lawley were alone with the dead body of their friend, whose masquerading dress had become his shroud.

You put a mask on a person, something weird happens. Changes the way they act along with the way they look. Sometimes they don't seem like people at all no more, but something else.

Here too it's masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I'd gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

The world has always been the same - An endless farce, an antic game, A universal masquerade!

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

And you can't judge men by what they when they take off their pants. For their really filthy tricks they dress up--they even put on uniforms, flags and decorations.

He was a faulty judge of character, a prevaricator, a child at heart. He went everywhere unrecognized and lunched with Kansas City shopkeepers and merchants, calling himself a cattleman or commodities investor, someone rich and leisured who had the common touch.

A Mountain Man in Drag By PM White

The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem.

What if it was someone else, someone who remembered something awful about the last Halloween masquerade, twenty-eight years ago?

One of the greatest obstacles I see to our fashioning a rational approach to spirituality is to have religious superstition and self-deception masquerade as science.

Appearance in disguise hides the original form.

This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Had she been told, she would have been pleased but unbelieving. And the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness.

necessary, she would take them. Today was the day! There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Had she been told, she would have been pleased but unbelieving. And the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness. As