Quotes About Disguise

When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.

De Frontón: haber observado a qué grado de envidia, de disimulo y duplicidad llegaron los tiranos, y cómo, casi siempre, esas gentes que llamamos los «patricios» son incapaces de verdadero afecto para los demás.

And keep in mind too that pain often comes in disguise—as drowsiness, fever, loss of appetite.… When you're bothered by things like that, remind yourself: "I'm giving in to pain.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

Also, if a man takes pride in his disguise skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.

Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't seem like the kind of life I could ever get away with, or deserve. This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.

It has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird. I'm eating a wing. It's the wing of a tame turkey, the stupidest bird in the world, so stupid it can't even fly any more. I am eating lost flight.

This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

Disguise is easier when you're young.

He just tarted up his misdemeanours and made them look respectable

I didn't let on I knew. It would have been dangerous for him. Also, if a man takes pride in his disguising skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.

she's a ho in sheep's clothing, and it's about time she told the truth, the ho truth, and nothing but the truth.

It was late that night before Anne and I met again. She seemed the same as always. Thus do changes of great moment disguise themselves as no change at all.

Time taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

fashion. I'm sure he mistook you for one of those…

chin and nose. He wore the cap tilted at such an angle that the lower half of his face was visible, and his gap-toothed smile was the first thing one saw of him.

Fear was the most universal stripper of disguise and the self-protection of contrived attitudes

It will be under the name David Talbot." "My clothes. There's a stash of them here under the name Isaac Rummel. Just a suitcase or two, and some coats. It's really winter, isn't it?" I gave him the key to the room. This was humiliating. Rather like making a servant of him. Perhaps he'd change his mind and put our new lodgings under the name of Renfield.

with no tribute whatsoever to the human habit of disguising the stare.