Lynn Martin Quotes

But the Emperor has nothing at all on!

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I'm naked. And a shark.

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

I've always made a fool out of myself.

15 people in a room looking at you with no clothes on - that's a little weird.

Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can bear. It’s like standing before him ... while he stares at my scars, pitiless and unmoved.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

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

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I threw her the extra clothes I had picked up, and she began to dress without comment. It worked," I said. "We did it." Of course it worked," Tera said. "Men are foolish. They will stare at anything female and naked.

No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.