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Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne

John Wayne
Corruption, Wayne, Masquerade

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."

W. S. Gilbert
Milk, Masquerade, Cream

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
Dating, Masquerade, Shows
Henry Cloud (2005). “How to Get a Date Worth Keeping: Be Dating in Six Months Or Your Money Back”, p.133, Zondervan

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

Lord Byron
Venice, Earth, Masque
Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.84, Sheba Blake Publishing

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

Julie Burchill
Funeral, Pageantry, Masquerade

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

Mark Sheppard
Peace, Harmony, Masquerade

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

Diane Arbus
Discouragement, Masquerade, Impossibility

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

Nate Silver
Masquerade, Accurate, Forecasts
Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.39, Penguin

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

Edgar Allan Poe
Blood, Masque, Seals
Frederick S. Frank, Tony Magistrale, Edgar Allan Poe (1997). “The Poe Encyclopedia”, p.224, Greenwood Publishing Group

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

Robin Morgan
Masquerade, Endure, Ifs
Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.76, Open Road Media

Yeah, I was at the Masquerade of the Damned.

Richelle Mead
Masquerade, Yeah
Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.182, Penguin

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