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Quotes About Disguise

At the age of eighty-three he had the self-awareness necessary to be patient with other people, but not always the facility to disguise the effort.
~ Jonathan Lee
Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another. He took it in stride by now.
~ Jonathan Lethem
When you hide your face from the world, you can't see the world.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Cuentan que desde entonces, muchas veces uno se encuentra con la furia, ciega, cruel, terrible y enfadada, pero si nos damos el tiempo de mirar bien, encontramos que esta furia que vemos es sólo un disfraz y que detrás del disfraz de furia, en realidad está escondida la tristeza.
~ Jorge Bucay
Instinctively he had already become proficient in the habit of simulating that he was someone, so that others would not discover his condition as no one; in London he found the profession to which he was predestined, that of the actor, who on a stage plays at being another before a gathering of people who play at taking him for that other person.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
When I began writing I always said to myself that my ideas were very shallow-- that if a reader saw through them, he would despise me. So I disguised myself.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In vain does the disguised traveller inwardly rebel against the influences and impressions which are wearing away his real self. The impressions of the past lose more and more their hold on him until they fade away, leaving the traveller hopelessly struggling in the toils of his own fiction, and the rôle he had assumed soon becomes second nature with him.
~ Ármin Vámbéry
Both psychopaths and sociopaths hide their true selves behind a mask, as American psychiatrist Hervey
~ Abby Ellin
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
~ Adam Osborne
As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.
~ Will Arnett
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
~ Pindar
Look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't
~ Pontus Jansson
A good dress often hides a deceiver.
~ Proverb
A hypocrite's hatred is hidden behind flattering words. #qotd #quoteoftheday
~ Proverb
He devil is not so ugly as he is painted.
~ Proverb
The praise of fools is censure in disguise.
~ Proverb
Undeserved praise is mockery disguised.
~ Proverb
Frugality is misery in disguise.
~ Publilius Syrus
Brave men hide their deeds as decent folk their alms. They disguise them or make excuses for them.
~ Quentin Crisp
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.
~ Régis Debray
I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.
~ Philip Schultz
The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. 'Free trade' is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.
~ Rainn Wilson