Disguised Quotes

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

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

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.