Unmasking Quotes

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

One thing he always said, and I love this quote and I really believe it, my ex said, 'You don't truly know a person until they don't get what they want. That's when they show you who they are.' You wouldn't think that the person you were married to and were with for 10 years and taught you the quote would be the best number one example to prove it.

I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person.

It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Horror is the removal of masks.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

Truth fears nothing but concealment. Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

… the cynic has unusually high motives or insight. He is better able to see behind false appearances, and he is more shocked and disappointed to discover the low motives of others. Because he is unwilling to be hypocritical, he is less popular and so he succeeds and leads less. Most people dislike cynics because cynics expose most people's hypocrisy.

Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.

Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.

I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

Will the real Red Reaper please stand up?

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.