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Mask Quotes - Page 3

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.3, Canongate Books

I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.554, NYU Press

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

Kate Jacobs (2012). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.111, Hachette UK

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.24, Bantam

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

"Fictional character: Ichabod Crane". "Sleepy Hollow", 1999.

When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.

Qiu Xiaolong (2003). “Death of a Red Heroine”, p.66, Soho Press

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.85, Usborne Publishing Ltd

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

"The Comic Spirit of G.K. Chesterton: A Study of the Humor, Wit, and Satire in His Work". Book by Aileen Dorothy Lorberg, 1938.

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.98