Quotes About Masquerade

Hiding behind a tougher outer image as a teenager feels cooler and safer compared to admitting, perhaps, that you're the very opposite.

Her smiles were her armor. They were a necessity. But of course, a man like him wouldn't know the difference.

There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.

Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.

when all of life is a costume party, costume parties are no longer possible.

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Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was there as the Childersins' novelty pet, or as a Perfume-detector. Nobody would guess that she was there to look for the person who had stolen her history.

She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired.

Beneath the appearance of normality he is strong as Goliath, scaly and supple as a serpent.

It was, for sure, the fault of those two gallants who had come up onto the balcony. One was an absolute Satan in his mask (though a fine figure on him), the other, unmasked and marvelous as a young knight in a stained glass window, stone-white and apparently dead, yet fit for an empress to lay hands on. Moved herself, Cornelia could see the effect this spectacle would have on the impressionable and sheltered virgin. Beg to Jesus to put such stirrings out of little Iuletta's breast.

We have the masks

Besides, just because they wore frills and makeup didn't mean they weren't dangerous[...]

He wasn't what he was supposed to be. He was an imposter: a boy who'd chosen this place, and at that moment, to impersonate a man.

We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group.

Mac," she shot over her shoulder, "one more thing, and if you tell Rowena I told you, I'll lie. But you need to know. There are no males among us. Never have been. Whatever your employer is, he's not one of us."   I

You're the biggest guy to walk down the street. The last male costume for matching couples at Masquerade was an extra-large rooster. Cock-a-doodle-do me?" His

Our lives are one masked ball.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

All the time he had been lying in wait, pretending to be something he wasn't.

The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

I've increasingly found that people never truly tire of playing games and dressing up, no matter how many years pass. Our lies now are just more sophisticated; our words to deceive, more eloquent. From cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, to husband and wife, we've never stopped pretending.

She didn't care to be reminded how starved she looked, but she could hardly bemoan the fact. It had lent well to her disguise. Though seventeen, she had masqueraded as a stripling lad beneath the very noses of the Yankees. Captain Latimer had not even been suspicious.