Disguise Quotes

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

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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

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

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.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

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.

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

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

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.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

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

Naked is the best disguise.

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.