Quotes About Disguise

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Behind every mask... is another mask.

We all wear masks. Mine are just better-crafted.

Feminists in Greenwich Village had begun bobbing their hair in 1912. In 1915, it was still radical. "The idea, it seems, came from Russia," the New York Times reported. "The intellectual women of that country were revolutionaries. For convenience in disguising themselves when the police trailed them, they cropped their hair."2 Holloway was something of a revolutionary, too.

On the outside she might appear cool, but inside her heart felt as though it was disintegrating like a digestive dropped in hot tea

We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves.

Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

Puck said the shittier the hotel, the less likely it was anyone would remember us. By that logic, we were now perfectly safe.

A broken heart can masquerade as a cold one.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

They're never human, Lieutenant. They just mimic us to get what they want.

Who does not end up a female impersonator?

I know this kind of person. I've known them all my life. They get the sympathy of others with what passes for insecurity. But what really motivates them is a vanity so immense most of us can not conceive of it. Insecurity is simply a disguise.

Now she would be part girl, part hardening gray sludge. And no one would notice the difference.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.

After all, he reflected, his whole uniform was a disguise, his whole new calling a masquerade.

The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms. Whatever the outcome there was a place for him in that battle." This was the belief of Guy Crouchback in 1939 when he heard the news of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty. What follows is the story of his attempt to find his "place in that battle.

The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something--most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning--

Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it.