Daniel Defoe Quotes

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess.

Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.