Masque Quotes

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Darkness, Decay, Red

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.251, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Lord Byron

  Venice, Earth, Dear

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

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• 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

  Life And Death, Matter, Lost

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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Night, Dream

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Blood, Seals

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

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• 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

  Gay, Flames, Darkness

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.251, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Dancing, Dancer, Lazy

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

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• 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

  Time, Long, Dancing

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

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

  John Webster

  Wise, Witty, Lust

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

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• 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

  Home, Hair, Oil

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

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

  Cindy Crawford

  Perfect, Wedding Day, Cleansing

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• 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

  Lying, Light, Triumph

  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

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• 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

  Fun, Oddities, Mind

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• 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

  Dating, Church, Noble

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