Concealed Identity Quotes

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me... All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. And because I moved so secretly now my daughter does not see me... We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing; unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

The Bagshaws? They didn't know she was a nun!

People seem sheathed in their tough organization.

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

I have this other side of me that people didn't meet in 2NE1.

It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

Already a couple of the faithful have sent in checks for a foundation memorial to the innocents who perished at the hands of the ninja at Waco. ... I have been criticized by referring to our federal masked men as "ninja" ... Let us reflect upon the fact that a man who covers his face shows reason to be ashamed of what he is doing. A man who takes it upon himself to shed blood while concealing his identity is a revolting perversion of the warrior ethic. It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces. We all do it, every time we walk out the door. And there are a lot of people who have to hide who they are. And I think this story speaks to that.

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.