Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

I think, as human beings, we try to hide our flaws and try to present this perfect person, this person we wish we were, to our spouse when that causes so many troubles.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

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.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

I don't ever feel like I have it all together.

It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.

We're all flawed, and no one is perfect.

We all have weaknesses.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

I don't think anybody is perfect.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.