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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. -- Victor Hugo
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 Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building. -- Benito Mussolini
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. -- Joseph Conrad
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. -- Jim Morrison
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. -- Katherine Mansfield
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself. -- Frank Herbert
Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show. -- Jim Carrey
There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on -- Rumi
A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. -- Chinua Achebe
I hate smoking sections. Unless we're talking about the movie 'The Mask' with Jim Carrey. Then the smoking section is my favorite part. -- Harris Wittels
Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue. -- Matthew Gregory Lewis
I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing. -- Sabaa Tahir
Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories... -- Amilcar Cabral
When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask." -- Edwidge Danticat
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. -- Charles Frazier
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. -- Charles Frazier
Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast. -- Robert Graves
A mask tells us more than a face. -- Oscar Wilde
We wear the mask that grins and lies. -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. -- John Dryden
Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey -- Matsuo Basho
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. -- John Updike
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. -- Elbert Hubbard
Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. -- River Phoenix
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. -- Erich Fromm
If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather! -- Richard Simmons
All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union. -- Laozi
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. -- James H. Boren
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. -- James A. Baldwin
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. -- Cesare Pavese
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. -- Victoria Abril
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. -- Gao Xingjian
When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt. -- Rick Baker
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. -- Kevyn Aucoin
Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm. -- Anna Maria Chavez
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. -- Robert Motherwell
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. -- Elinor Wylie
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. -- Denis Diderot
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good. -- Samantha Power
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes mask. But, above all, he was sensitive and looked out for those he loved. -- Jennifer Grant
You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. -- Helena Bonham Carter
A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes. -- Christian Louboutin
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. -- Phil McGraw
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom. -- Gerard Butler
Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul? -- Tina Brown
I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand. -- Alicia Keys
The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need. -- John Keegan
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind. -- Stephen Dillane
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. -- Ron Perlman
Everyone wears a mask. -- Nick Carter
....and your stupid camel mask... -- Dean Ambrose
Meekness is the mask of malice. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Mortals are equal; their mask differs. -- Voltaire
Boredom is a mask frustration wears. -- Neal Stephenson
Writing is both mask and unveiling. -- E. B. White
Every profound spirit needs a mask. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Humor is the mask of wisdom. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Personality is a mask you believe in. -- Robert J. White
Convention, so often a mask for injustice ... -- Edith Hamilton
Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information. -- Ben Bernanke
Anybody who wears a mask is scared. -- Gump Worsley
Give us this day our daily mask. -- Tom Stoppard
Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance... -- Christopher Pearse Cranch
It's very different to live with a mask. -- Johnny Hunt
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great -- John Dryden
Your silences remain; they are your biggest mask. -- Sreesha Divakaran
What can I say? Chicks dig the mask. -- Kane
Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity. -- Deb Caletti
Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious -- Rumi
Men take more pains to mask than mend. -- Benjamin Franklin
Buffoons may have serious faces behind their mask! -- Nelson Jack
No one can keep a mask on long. -- Seneca the Younger
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice. -- Edith Hamilton
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains -- Lucretius
It's amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws -- Lucinda Riley
Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others. -- Randy Pausch
When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you. -- Qiu Xiaolong
Some of us wear the mask prouder than others. -- Lady Gaga
Boldness is a mask of fear, however so great -- Susan Patron
The trouble with a mask is it never changes -- Charles Bukowski
No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart. -- Kevyn Aucoin
We mask our needs as the needs of others. -- Terry Tempest Williams
No one can wear a mask for very long. -- Seneca the Younger
America needs ObamaCare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask. -- Jay Leno
Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask. -- Deepak Chopra
Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask. -- Jack Adams
The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower! -- Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira
Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces. -- Khalil Gibran
The scariest thing in the world is losing your mask. -- Patrick Roy
I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul ... -- Walt Whitman
Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask. -- Benjamin Franklin
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask. -- William Hazlitt
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself -- Marguerite Yourcenar
A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves. -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask. -- Benjamin Franklin
There come a time, when good man must wear mask. -- Johnny Depp
The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask. -- Jane Roberts
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. -- Edith Wharton
Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ... -- Mary Renault
Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain. -- Deepak Chopra
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it. -- George Orwell
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask. -- Carlos Santana
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry. -- Steven Levitt
I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man. -- Lionel Suggs
... keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face mask -- Emma McLaughlin
The mask's back in place. The heard-it-all smile. The seen-it-all eyes. -- Moira Young
A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself. -- Marty Rubin
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. -- Washington Irving
The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice. -- Robert H. Jackson
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My fear is if i lower my mask will people accept me? -- Tina J. Richardson

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