Best 118 quotes in «disguise quotes» category

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

I would say that we like to disguise our heartbreaks with happier melodies.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Naked is the best disguise.

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

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

Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.

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

Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.

Pawns are really queens in disguise.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Praise undeserved, is satire 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

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

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Be a man! Put on a mask.

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.

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.

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.