Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.

a woman is not really dressed unless she is wearing a hat.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

Is that your hat or are you wearing a cabana?

all day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

A lot of people go through life trying to perform normalcy, and I think you can relate to that.

If I try and be something I am not, if I try and be cool, and I am not, I am a boring white man in a suit. Usually a pin-striped suit.

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.

All men in makeup are playing a part.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.

A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.