Masked Intentions Quotes

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

The smile with the knife under the cloak.

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

We had an ancient Russian acting coach at my drama school who said the worst offense you could commit was to let your subtext show. That is the point of acting, is to be saying one thing and not be allowed by society or your predicament to show what you're really feeling. In a way, I think that's why the therapy generation has killed script writing, because all you ever get is people going, "Hi, I'm feeling really angry right now."

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

[Beware of those] who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

You never know what's really happening behind closed doors. Everything isn't always what it seems.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

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

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?