Disguise Quotes

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

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

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from 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.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

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

There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.