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Miss Foxe's other passion was fairy tales. She loved the transformations in them. Everybody was in disguise, or on their way to becoming something else. And all was overcome by order in the end. Love could not prevail if the order of the tale didn't wish it, and neither could hatred, nor grief, nor cunning. If you were the first of three siblings, then you were going to make a big mistake, and that was that. If you were the third sibling, you couldn't fail.

Mungo was a gnome. Disguised as a dwarf. The blatantly false beard was a giveaway. It appeared that Mungo had crafted it himself out of hair collected from a wide assortment of cars and then glued it to his face.

No matter what its citizens get up to, Hamburg always manages to keep its nose clean.

Our friend Tuesday," said the President in a deep voice at once of quietude and volume, "our friend Tuesday doesn't seem to grasp the idea. He dresses up like a gentleman, but he seems to be too great a soul to behave like one. He insists on the ways of the stage conspirator. Now if a gentleman goes about London in a top hat and a frock-coat, no one need know that he is an anarchist. But if a gentleman puts on a top hat and a frock-coat, and then goes about on his hands and knees — well, he may attract attention. That's what Brother Gogol does. He goes about on his hands and knees with such inexhaustible diplomacy, that by this time he finds it quite difficult to walk upright." "I am not good at goncealment," said Gogol sulkily, with a thick foreign accent; "I am not ashamed of the cause." "Yes you are, my boy, and so is the cause of you," said the President good-naturedly. "You hide as much as anybody; but you can't do it, you see, you're such an ass! You try to combine two inconsistent methods. When a householder finds a man under his bed, he will probably pause to note the circumstance. But if he finds a man under his bed in a top hat, you will agree with me, my dear Tuesday, that he is not likely ever to forget it. Now when you were found under Admiral Biffin's bed—" "I am not good at deception," said Tuesday gloomily, flushing. "Right, my boy, right," said the President with a ponderous heartiness, "you aren't good at anything.

Perhaps you are Coyote in disguise and have chosen a spectacularly inappropriate time for a joke.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

Never be decieved by exterior decorations, some monsters go about on suit and tie and of course a Bible.

Never rate yourself too low; you will be whoever you think you can be provided you are willing to pay the price!

No, she doesn't know it's me. I'm in disguise. Look, I know someone who does this with just a pair of glasses. And I have glasses AND a moustache.

Not everyone who comes to your doorstep with a bowl is a beggar. Some of them are actually winged creatures in disguise.

Old age," she says, "is a wonderful disguise.

People may not see you the way you see yourself. But, that's because they don't want to acknowledge your uniqueness. Jealousy is not disguised.

Some time ago N went over to Paris disguised as an opera singer, and he looked the part so well that the agent whom he was to meet thought he really was an opera singer and never went near him for a week. In fact, it turned out a little awkwardly, because one evening this agent saw a member of the French Cabinet dining at the Ritz and he looked so much like somebody disguised as an opera singer that this dam' fool of an agent went up and spoke to him. He was at once arrested by the French secret police, and there was nearly a most unpleasant scandal.

The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations spun endlessly to disguise the simple fact that all one's energy, passion, appetite and ambition have been aborted.

The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surface; being the part is the true disguise.

We learn how to disguise our differentness as we grow up. [She] doesn't know how to do that yet.

Sometimes blessings come in ugly wrapping paper.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question.

True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her.

What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as the creation of a painting… I created a woman for my artist life, bold, gay, courageous, generous, fearless; and another to please my father, a clear-sighted woman with a love of beauty, harmony, and self-discipline, critical and selective; and still another who lives in chaos, embraces the weak and the stumbling and the confused.

Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

When you first meet a person, sometimes they'll pretend to be all that you like. Deception is hard to predict instantly at times, but if you hang with them for a while their true colors will eventually begin to show.

Are all men in disguise except those crying?

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall.

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

I have always dressed somewhat well - not because I work at GQ - but because my wife is amazing at finding clothes that disguise my waistline.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.