Social Masking Quotes

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

It's important to have a smile with spectators but it's not always possible.

I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I assumed that the root of the problem was that I was too strange for the real world. That being the case, I created a charming and dynamic personality to make the necessary forays into the Outside, and I kept my strangeness for myself; my own peculiar jewels under lock and key.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men.

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.

I'm just very good at pretending.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.