Oscar Wilde Quotes

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Being is like pretending.

Very few of us are what we seem.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

I am not what you see and hear.

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

No one is ever who they purport to be.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

The voice that arms itself to be heard. / The face that hides itself to be seen.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.

‎We only have so many faces in our pockets

No one can keep a mask on long.