Quotes About Disguise

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

Appearance in disguise hides the original form.

Mask on the face wins the motives; whereas, loses the character and trust.

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature.

I became disenchanted. My first impression, that of finding myself part of a fearless battle, passed. The trepidation at every exam and the joy of passing it with the highest marks had faded. Gone was the pleasure of re-educating my voice, my gestures, my way of dressing and walking, as if I were competing for the prize of best disguise, the mask worn so well that it was almost a face.

Gone was the pleasure of re-educating my voice, my gestures, my way of dressing and walking, as if I were competing for the prize of best disguise, the mask worn so well that it was almost a face.

Tutto insomma tremolava, si inarcava come per cambiare i connotati, non farsi riconoscere negli odi accumulati, nelle tensioni, nelle brutture, e mostrare invece una faccia nuova.

The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise our experiences and make them presentable, in fiction it's possible to sweep away all the veils—in fact, perhaps, it's a duty.

De Sade says you must commit crimes. In using the word crime we're adopting the consensus term, though among ourselves we would not describe any of our actions as such. We need the universally valid norm to get a kick out of our own extremeness. We are monsters, even if we disguise ourselves as ordinary people. We are the children of ordinary people, but we are not content with that. Inwardly we are consumed with wickedness, outwardly we are grammar school pupils.

Well, that's just it, I thought: you didn't just write down a raw cry of suffering. It would be boring and self-indulgent. You had to disguise it, turn it into art. That's what literature was. That was what required talent, and made people want to read what you wrote, and then they would give you money.

Men and women who venture to someone else's war through choice do so in a variety of guises. UN general, BBC correspondent, aid worker, mercenary: in the final analysis they all want the same thing, a hit off the action, a walk on the dark side. It's just a question of how slick a cover you give yourself, and how far you want to go. If you find a cause later then hold on to it, but never blind yourself with your own disguise. I

Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

Everyone has something to hide.

sunken to that of an old woman in the harsh disguise

People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.

shouldn't do anything suspicious, like trying to map out the entire city in the first week.

Antonio J. Méndez

A self-seeker who loves own face always in all possible ways gets merely opportunity seekers in life and that too in a very big number under the disguise of fans, friends, family relatives, followers and field supporters.

Betrayers to any traitor remain under the disguise of his/her close friends and supporters only.

The more a person has ill-gotten wealth, the more he has hidden foes called frenemies who are often disguised as friends, family relatives, fans and followers.

You're such a fugitive, but you don't know what you're running from.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.