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Quotes About Disguises

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.
~ Jenna Fischer
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
~ Homer
We only have so many faces in our pockets
~ Marlon Brando
Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.
~ T Bone Burnett
Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.
~ Janette Oke
The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion: I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous. In order to contend with it, I first had to know it in all of its moods and infinite disguises, understand its real and imagined powers.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Apparently, he uses disguises sometimes in the course of his investigations. In his liaison with Mariah, he used them for discretion. He came to her once dressed as a chimney sweep. Quite invigorating, don't you think?
~ Deanna Raybourn
I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.
~ Al Pacino
Your true Self, which is your spirit, your soul, is completely free of those things. It is immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and it feels beneath no one. And yet, it is also humble and feels superior to no one, because it recognizes that everyone else is the same Self, the same spirit in different disguises.
~ Deepak Chopra
We could wear disguises," said Frightening. Aurora nodded quickly. "Like a false beard. I've always wanted to wear a false beard." Vex frowned. "But you're a woman." "Exactly. They'd never suspect it was me.
~ Derek Landy
The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
~ Rupert Murdoch
most of us never really grow up or mature all that much — we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
~ Robin S. Sharma
I have a huge costume section in my closet - wigs, mustaches, the whole thing. Halloween's my favorite holiday, so I have a lot of weird stuff.
~ Clark Duke
The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one that we must hunt for, and seek out through the disguises of her stories.
~ Anais Nin
Marriage is the normal way of life. We must hold fast to our connections with life as the majority live it. Our covers must be much more than disguises. False whiskers and grease-paint that's not good enough.
~ JOHN BRAINE
I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.
~ Rupert Grint
We can see through all your disguises: the paths of day, the paths of darkness, whichever paths you take - we're right behind you, following you like a trail of smoke, like a long tail, a tail made of girls, heavy as memory, light as air: twelve accusations, toes skimming the ground, hands tied behind our backs, tongues sticking out, eyes bulging, songs choked in our throats.
~ Margaret Atwood
Is there no end to his disguises, of benevolence?
~ Margaret Atwood
Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?
~ Margaret Atwood
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
~ Carl Jung
Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the disguises and stage tricks by which acting can be grotesquely simulated.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I always imagine divine mercy giving us back to ourselves and letting us laugh at what we became, laugh at the preoisterous disguises of crouch and squint and limp and lour we all do put on.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Eas'd the putting offThese troublesome disguises which we wear.
~ John Milton