Quotes About Disguise

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The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

The cranks are always with us," Qwilleran said, "hiding behind trees, peeking around corners, going about in disguise, and plotting their selfish little schemes.

We both had a tender regard for this god. Min had not only helped us learn something material; more importantly, his presence had helped Tiberius. Working in disguise at the lettuce booth, though ludicrous, had taken his mind off his troubles after the lightning strike. Min had restored my man to me.

We all wear masks. And the more we have to hide, the more accomplished the veneer.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

I perceive that marble conceals a multitude of sins.

Ti Noel vaguely understood that his rejection by the geese was a punishment for his cowardice. Macandal had disguised himself as an animal for years to serve men, not to abjure the world of men.

Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it

And so he thinks he's entitled–or almost entitled–to call himself the Duke of Johannesburg," James continued. "Secretly, though, he's worried that the Lord Lyon and his people will catch him. He saw the Lord Lyon the other day in the supermarket in Morningside and he almost fainted. I was with him at the time. It was in the frozen products section and he had to stick his head into one of those big refrigerated displays so as not to be recognised.

but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.

She thought there was a curious hardness about her, as if her beauty was a deceptively rich topsoil, thinly spread over rock.… Finding that no one was looking in her direction, Mrs. Pollifax

She thought there was a curious hardness about her, as if her beauty was a deceptively rich topsoil, thinly spread over rock.… Finding that no one was looking in her direction, Mrs. Pollifax reached into her purse and surreptitiously examined her passport. Mrs. Lovecraft was absolutely right: there

Being inside Marc Fisher's head was agony. The man had the outside appearance of a human being, but he was not. It was like taking a bite of a perfect, shiny apple to find nothing but squirming maggots inside. Hall

We wear the mask that grins and lies...

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.