“Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?”
In a letter to Ada Leverson [Sphinx] recorded in her book Letters To The Sphinx From Oscar Wilde and Reminiscences of the Author (1930)
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“You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.”
Source: Playback (1958), chapter 14
“Let's take our masks off and wash our faces up!”
Original: (pt) Vamos tirar a máscara e lavar a cara!
Source: [9 December 2009, Morre Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, dono do bordão 'bandido bom é bandido morto', https://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/morre-luiz-carlos-alborghetti-dono-do-bordao-bandido-bom-bandido-morto-209786.html, Portuguese, Extra, Editora Globo S/A, 31 March 2019]
quote against hypocrisy and tendency

Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986), p. 191

“That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.”
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity. (63).