Quotes About Disguise

We can show what we hide but we can't hide what we show.

Esa fue mi primera lección: bajo la apariencia plácida y familiar de las cosas, hay otra cara que aguarda el momento de romper el mundo en pedazos

Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark, or disguise. I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in darkness or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.

A glover will only ever want the skin, the surface, the outer layer. Everything else is useless, an inconvenience, an unnecessary mess. She thinks of the private cruelty behind something as beautiful and perfect as a glove.

My wife who, just a moment ago, was a dark, forbidding figure with a gun, a long gray coat, and a hat like Death's hood, she has shucked off the sou'wester and transmogrified back to her usual incarnation.

and so I took hers. I did. And no one ever worked it out, so I suppose

The Initiate must be totally naked, to demonstrate that he is truly a human being and not something else in disguise like a cabbage or something.

envious laymen had come up with the ruse of claiming their households were monasteries

She had the expression of the cat who ate the canary and then threw it up in her owner's favorite shoes.

They look like terrain, until they don't." Tom pointed to one of them. "That's Kevin." "Really?" Niamh said. "Fucking Kevin?

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.

A man with a beard, ordering a beer milk shake in a town where he wasn't known—they might call the police.

I had made myself believe that the eyes are not the mirror of the soul. Some of the deadliest little female contraptions I ever saw had the faces and the eyes of angels.

Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

We'd have valet parking, too, but the attendants would be disguised as hostile schizophrenic street people who would squeegee-attack your windshield right as you pull up. Those in the know would have figured out by now that all our valets were ex-cons

Their terrible outward appearance is actually a disguise adopted by deities embodying wisdom and compassion to help us attain greater understanding and kindness toward ourselves and toward others

The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.