Masque Quotes:

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.84, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Venice, Earth, Masque, Festivities

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: Frederick S. Frank, Tony Magistrale, Edgar Allan Poe (1997). “The Poe Encyclopedia”, p.224, Greenwood Publishing Group

topic: Blood, Masque, Seals

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Darkness, Decay, Red, Masque, Tripods

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Masque of the Red Death”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Life And Death, Matter, Lost, Masque

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Life, Dream, Sleep, Masque, Day And Night

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Gay, Flames, Darkness, Masque, Tripods

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

topic: Dancing, Dancer, Lazy, Masque

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.176

topic: Time, Long, Dancing, Masque

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

- John Webster

source: John Webster (1989). “The Duchess of Malfi”

topic: Masque

I'm all about having one day during the week when I have an at-home spa day. That's when I like to do my nails and moisturize, or do a coconut oil hair masque and clear out my blackheads with pore strips. That's one of my favorite things.

- Shay Mitchell

source: "Shay Mitchell Reveals Her Best Clear-Skin Secrets". Interview With Julianne Carell, www.glamour.com. March 24, 2016.

topic: Home, Hair, Oil, Masque, Spas

I used the Deep Cleansing Masque on my wedding day because I wanted everything - including my complexion - to be perfect!

- Cindy Crawford

topic: Perfect, Wedding Day, Cleansing, Masque

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2

topic: Lying, Light, Triumph, Masque, Candle Lights

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

- William Shakespeare

topic: Fun, Oddities, Mind, Masque

How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

- John Donne

topic: Dating, Church, Noble, Masque