Mask Quotes - page 5

Are we not like that actor of old time, Who wore his mask so long his face took Its likeness? (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable. But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I, that I inhabit it like a house, and that my face is a mask which, with or without my consent, conceals my real nature from others. View quote
W. H. Auden
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. View quote
Gao Xingjian
Let us endeavour for a moment to disconnect our thinking selves from the mask of humanity; let us imagine ourselves scientific Saturnians, if you will, fairly acquainted with such animals as now inhabit the Earth, and employed in discussing the relations they bear to a new and singular 'erect and featherless biped,' which some enterprising traveller, overcoming the difficulties of space and gravitation, has brought from that distant planet for our inspection, well preserved, may be, in a cask of rum. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. View quote
Paul Valéry
We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of. View quote
Phil McGraw
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. View quote
Alan Moore
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask. View quote
Alan Moore
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof. View quote
Alan Moore
Take off all the mask, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use and be the most honest person you can be with yourself, then whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results... (Jacque Fresco)
I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath. View quote
Wilkie Collins
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. View quote
John Dryden
Fire is the first and final mask of my God. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Amid all these things, beyond all these things every man and nation, every plant and animal, every god and demon, charges upward like an army inflamed by an incomprehensible, unconquerable Spirit. We struggle to make this Spirit visible, to give it a face, to encase it in words, in allegories and thoughts and incantations, that it may not escape us. But it cannot be contained in the twentysix letters of an alphabet which we string out in rows; we know that all these words, these allegories, these thoughts, and these incantations are, once more, but a new mask with which to conceal the Abyss. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Even Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask when he robbed people. View quote
Ed Miliband
I'm OK with masks. I tell people, wear a mask. But just the other day they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch it. View quote
Donald Trump
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. View quote
Jane Jacobs
I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath. View quote
Jodi Picoult
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it? View quote
Jodi Picoult
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building. (Benito Mussolini)
I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation. View quote
Bret Easton Ellis
There are to whom each symbol is a mask; The life of love is a mysterious task; They want no answer, for they would not ask. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. View quote
Bell hooks
Meryl Streep, in her Protestant way, is stuck on words; she flashes clever accents as a mask for her deeper failures. (And she cannot deliver a Jewish line; she destroyed Nora Ephron's snappy dialogue in Hearburn.) Streep's work doesn't travel. Try dubbing her for movie houses in India: there'd be nothing left, just that bony, earnest horse face moving its lips. Imagine, on the other hand, lesser technicians like Hedy Lammarr, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner: these women have an international and universal appeal, crossing the centuries. They would have been beautiful in Egypt, Greece, Rome, medieval Burgundy, or eighteenth-century Paris. Susan Hayward played Bathsheba. Try to picture Streep in a Bible epic! Streep is incapable of playing the great legendary or mythological roles. She has no elemental power, no smouldering sensuality. View quote
Camille Paglia