Quotes About Disguise

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

this subterfuge was nothing but the disguise of ignorance

Another thing to watch. The Brotherhood name organisations in a way that leads people to believe their aim is the opposite of what they are really there to do. For instance, if you want to run drugs without being suspected, do it through an anti-drug agency. If you want to destroy land and kill wildlife, do it through a wildlife protection agency. If you want to run a Satanic ring, do it through the Christian Church.

Horror movies -- of the genuinely fantastic, supernatural variety -- had not been invented yet, at least not in America, where convention dictated that supernatural occurrences always be "explained away," usually as the disguise or machinations of a criminal.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. —Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yourself. It will look at first like disaster, but is really good fortune in disguise, since fate too knows how to follow your evasions through a hundred forms of its own. Now you will become at last the one you intended to be.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

The makeup person said oh my God what happened to you? I looked like I was in a car accident.

Oh my God, can you see me? I thought I was wearing my invisibility cloak.

Apollo?" I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." A god named Fred?

The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses...It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

Be careful of fake faces, the most honest the most evil.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.