Mask quotes
159 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms."
"Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious"
"Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals"
"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it."
"A mask tells us more than a face."
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"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask."
"Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself."
"Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey"
"The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost."
"..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask."
"Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself."
"No one can keep a mask on long."
"There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on"
"All societies end up wearing masks."
"Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status."
"The trouble with a mask is it never changes"
"I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public."
"Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?"
"I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul."
"Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue."
"Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on."
"Mortals are equal; their mask differs."
"In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask."
"Some of us wear the mask prouder than others."
"Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks."
