Quotes of Masquerade - somelinesforyou

“ I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ Naked is the best disguise. ”

- Jeanette Winterson

“ Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise. ”

- John Webster

“ And after all, what is a lie? 'T is butThe truth in masquerade. ”

- George Gordon Byron

“ Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion. ”

- Tony Wilson

“ And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. ”

- Joshua Loth Liebman

“ Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. ”

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“ And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. ”

- Lord Byron

“ A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. ”

- Lionel Strachey
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