Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We wear different masks and hide our reality from everyone, including ourselves. Our assumed identities become our whole lives, and we start to believe them — even more than others do. — Mo Gawdat
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca
..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. — River Phoenix
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask. — Agatha Christie
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. — Adam Clarke
Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask... — Soren Kierkegaard
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde
Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability. — Kevin Mitnick
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. — Alan Moore
Short Masquerade Quotes
Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. — John McCain
Perfection Is Procrastination Masquerading as Quality Control. — Chris Williamson
Credit is always the disease that masquerades as the cure. — Russell Napier
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. — J. I. Packer
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. — Thomas Szasz
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. — Arthur Schopenhauer
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. — Alexander Pope
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. — Jodi Picoult
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. — R. D. Laing
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians. — Bartolome de las Casas
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. — Howard Thurman
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
Human tendency to conform, especially when in large groups, is terrifying. Propaganda machines leverage this throughout human history. The way out is to think freely, detached from the divisive narratives of the day that masquerade as universal truths. This often feels lonely. — Lex Fridman
My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness—what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new! — D. H. Lawrence
As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream." — Sayings
Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne — John Wayne
I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies. — Harold Pinter
The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident? — Jack Kevorkian
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. — Stephen Colbert
In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a moral compact embedded in a political contract or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others. — Bill Moyers
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. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not. — Stephen Jay Gould
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism — Gad Saad
Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white. — Kevin Zraly
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and from those that masquerade as reality in our cultural and religious institutions. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
A fetish is a story masquerading as an object. — Robert Stoller
Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen. — Henry Cloud
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion. — Tony Wilson
bizarreness masqueraded as creativity. — Edward Gibbon
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A lie is just the truth masquerading as bullshit. — Michael Wakcher
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. — Walter Lippmann
It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't. — Frank Rich
religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion. — Georgia Harkness
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. — Nancy Pearcey
A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades. — Isak Dinesen
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en! — Jerry Smith
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. — Joshua L. Liebman
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. — Stephen Colbert
A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery. — Julie Burchill
Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult. — Sayings
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