Quotes about Persona
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
— Oscar Wilde
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
— John Bunyan
My whole life is a theater piece.
— Lady Gaga
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
— John Bunyan
When the mask of Darth Vader is removed, you see an unformed man, one who has not developed as a human individual. What you see is a strange and pitiful sort of undifferentiated face.
— Joseph Campbell
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
— John Bunyan
I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
— Marilyn Monroe
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)
— Thomas Merton
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
— John Eldredge
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
— Robert Frost
These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.
— Edith Wharton