Mask Quotes - Page 9

• I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ashes, Mouths, Stores

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.152, Anchor

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• When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.

  Yusuke Kishi

  Influence, Appearance, Outward Appearance

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• When the 'Batman' TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.

  Eartha Kitt

  Taken, America, Tvs

  "The Many Faces of Catwoman". Documentary, January 18, 2005.

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• The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Dad, Believe, Character

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Humanity, Faces, Slave

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Loot”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

  Jon Snow

  Halloween, People, Devil

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• Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Real, Law, Shoes

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

  George Plimpton

  New York, Guests, Pages

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• Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

  Phil McGraw

  Feet, Trying, Statements

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Real, Character, Tears

  Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.284, Wordsworth Editions

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• I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.

  Wilkie Collins

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.176, e-artnow sro

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• When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.

  George Orwell

  Men, White Man, Tyrants

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• I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

  Will Arnett

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

  "'Parks and Recreation' star Amy Poehler and husband Will Arnett expecting second child" by Christina Everett, www.nydailynews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.

  Liz Kessler

  Real, Secret, Trying

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• Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?

  Laurence Sterne

  Kindness, Passion, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.339

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• Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

  Orson Scott Card

  Imagination, Tragedy, Bed

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.8, Macmillan

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• If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

  Leonard Cohen

  Want, Lovers, Kind

  Song: I'm Your Man, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried her face in his side, her body shaking with sobs. Her tiny voice was muffled: "Tollerere me a hic, tollerere me a hic..." Take me away from here, take me away from here.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Voice, Hands

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• One of the things it channelled in me was that experience that I'd had of wearing a big red leather thing on my upper torso in Daredevil with a mask I couldn't see through and an outfit that completely inhibited movement, feeling humiliated and like a fool. I just recalled that.

  Ben Affleck

  Feelings, Movement, Red

  "Hollywoodland - Ben Affleck interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mistake, Dark, Light

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• The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!

  Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira

  Wrestling, Patriot, Showers

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• It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sweet, People, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.223, Vintage

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• You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

  Pat Barker

  Thinking, Want, Faces

  Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.226, Penguin

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• Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Venice, Years, Long

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