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Quotes About Disguise

You remember what I told you," she said as he approached the hook where she had placed his coat. "You move slowly, you do not really move like a woman, for if you moved so fast and so much as a woman, the illusion would be broken, the illusion is a complete lie. You move more slowly than a human creature, and you keep your arms close to your body.
~ Anne Rice
But you covered yourself with a concealing bulk, didn't you? To hide from whom?
~ Anne Rice
I saw myself in her gaze, a hooded being of burnt black sticks for a neck and wrists with gloves for hands and a floating leather mask for a face.
~ Anne Rice
The code and the message are not the same. And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?
~ Anne Rice
You can dress a pig up in satin and lace and its still a pig. Francis smiled hazily. Are you calling my intended a pig, Charles? Charles raised a dark eyebrow. Intended what, Francis? You surely cant be having respectable inclinations towards this girl. The bullet hit your arm, not your head.
~ Anne Stuart
Yeah, you should have seen your face. Actually, I should have seen your face. Stupid sneak suits.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.
~ Sebastian Faulks
handsome was merely a mask over a truth, like spectacles. And the truth was always more interesting than anything else.
~ Shana Abé
But it wasn't okay. It was about as far from okay as you can get. If okay was the earth, then I was standing on Jupiter. I don't know why I said it was okay. For some reason, I was protecting the feelings of the man who had broken my heart yet again.
~ Sherman Alexie
I didn't yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.
~ Sherman Alexie
Please nothing, she's a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn't to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No matter how you disguise this trite bullshit, it's my life, Jeff. Penned in an awkward manner. It's things I didn't want to see in black-and-white print. You're lucky after three hundred years that I've mellowed. In my human days, I'd have slit your throat, pulled your tongue through the opening, and left you tied to a tree for the wolves to eat. (Rafael)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.
~ Don DeLillo
I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.
~ Nick Offerman
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
~ Robert Breault
Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.
~ Stephanie Mills
Looking at each other like, What the fuck's going on here? We big-time undercover supercops.
~ John Edgar Wideman
Nobody can shee me," she cackled. "Trusht the cloak." Which profound witticism set them all off once more. "What the blistering blazes do you think you're doing?
~ John Flanagan
With your newfound camouflage skills, I'd probably lose you in there.
~ John Flanagan
Every fiber of his being wanted to run, to get to the stables as quickly as he could. But he forced himself to walk casually, to avoid attracting attention to himself
~ John Flanagan
She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.
~ John Heywood
Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
~ John McDougall
The heart doth recognise thee, Alone, alone! The heart doth smell thee sweet, Doth view thee fair, doth judge thee most complete,—- Though seeing now those changes that disguise thee.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning