Matt Haig Quotes

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

I'm really good at pretending.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Life is a masquerade.

It is of great consequences to disguise your inclination, and to play the hypocrite well.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

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.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

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 wear the mask that grins and lies.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.