“A mask of gold hides all deformities.”
“I bare my nakedness to the world that the world may see who I am; not the mask that hides my flaws, not the mask that hides my beauty. I bask in the light and I take off the mask!”
“It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.”
“Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?”
“Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions--crushing them down desperately!”
“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. ”