disguised nature Quotes

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.