Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

In this case the emperor truly has no cloths on.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.

The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.

The public can't be fooled all the time.

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.

An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

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

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

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.