..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.
Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
You've been hurt before, I can see it in your eyes. You try to smile it away, some things you can't disguise.
If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.
Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.
Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
