Best 118 quotes in «disguise quotes» category

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

Scars are wisdom in disguise.

Shoe Suede Blues opened for the Monkees in the 1997 reunion tour for two shows. I went out in disguise when I played with Shoe Suede Blues.

Pawns are really queens in disguise.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

The ultimate disguise is nothing. Nudity.

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!

Trump is a hybrid phenomenon as I see it. He is somewhat like UKIP and Le Pen with his right-wing populism that espouses some fascist overtones, but he's also partly just the old neoliberalism in disguise, especially if we look at some of the people he appointed to his cabinet.

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

And who shall you be once you don your grand disguise?" "La luna," she said with a smile. "Then I shall be la notte to your moon" Archer lifted the hard black mask he held and slipped it over his thinner silk one

Be a man! Put on a mask.

Dissimulation is not fraud. It is an effort not to show things as they are. And it is a difficult effort: when we excel, others must not recognize our excellence. If someone were to become famous for his ability to disguise himself, as actors do, all would know that he is what he pretends to be. But concerning the true, excellent dissimulators, who have existed and exist still, we have no information.

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

Everyone wears the uniform of how he sees himself or how he disguises himself.

Fitz’s human clothes are a huge snoozefest. Check out what Dex and I found in Alvar’s closet!” They both unzipped their hoodies, revealing T-shirts with logos underneath. “I have no idea what this means, but it’s crazy awesome, right?” Keefe asked, pointing to the black and yellow oval on his shirt. “It’s from Batman,” Sophie said—then regretted the words. Of course Keefe demanded she explain the awesomeness of the Dark Knight. “I’m wearing this shirt forever, guys,” he decided. “Also, I want a Batmobile! Dex, can you make that happen?” Sophie wouldn’t have been surprised if Dex actually could build one. As a Technopath, he worked miracles with technology. He’d made all kinds of cool gadgets for Sophie, including the lopsided ring she wore—a special panic switch that had saved her life during her fight with one of her kidnappers. “What’s my shirt from?” Dex asked, pointing to the logo with interlocking yellow W’s. Sophie didn’t have the heart to tell him it was the symbol for Wonder Woman.

Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

I am looking for the one I can’t fool.

how easily a man who has never been in any great distress, may pass through life without knowing, in his own person at least, anything of the possible goodness of the human heart - or, as I must add with a sigh, of its possible vileness. So a thick curtain of manners is drawn over the features and expression of men's natures, that to the ordinary observer, the two extremities, and the infinite field of varieties which lie between them, are all confounded - the vast and multitudinous line of differences expressed in the gamut or alphabet of elementary sounds.

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.

I believed in your love till the time I actually made it, felt like sex.

I look like a hooker.” “A slut,” I corrected. “Hookers have pastier complexions.” “The voice of experience, I’m sure.

I took on the shape of a girl.

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage.

I try not to look obvious as I wait for Mom’s answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other. “Oh, of course!” Mom exclaims, her voice trilling with laughter. “How could I have forgotten?” And now I know. Really know. This woman is not my mother. I don’t know who she is, but I know absolutely who she is not.

Losing your job is a great blessing in disguise