Quotes About Disguise

But to me, butterflies were slightly sneaky; all they were, were moths in embroidered jackets. And, yes, moths were creepy and their flapping wings made a nasty, papery sound – but at least they were honest; they were brown, they were dull, they were stupid (flying into flames at the drop of a hat). All in all, they hadn't much going for them but they didn't pretend to be anything other than what they were.

We don't have anything like that here. War masks and so on.

as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person. He would probably laugh at the thought that the Lord sent him to you for your benefit (and his), but that is the perfection of the disguise, his own ignorance of it.

this place is full of shit. It's run by aliens from outer space. Sure, they make the food look Italian, they make it smell Italian, but it tastes like goo from Mars.

Lily la chilenita, la camarada Arlette, madame Robert Arnoux, Mrs. Richardson, Kuriko y madame Ricardo Somocurcio, se llamaba, en realidad, Otilia. Otilita.

Usted me odia y no puede disimularlo, dijo Roger Casement. El sheriff, después de un momento de sorpresa, asintió, con una mueca que por un instante descompuso su cara abotargada

La literatura es puro artificio, pero la gran literatura consigue disimularlo y la mediocre lo delata.

Cada vez que le ocurría apiadarse y avergonzarse de sí mismo hasta el extremo de que se le llenaran los ojos de lágrimas, se sentía luego deprimido y asqueado. Nunca había sido un sentimental propenso a exhibir sus emociones, siempre había sabido disimular los tumultos que agitaban sus sentimientos tras una máscara de perfecta serenidad

There is no fiction. There's only truth disguised as fiction

Appearance is never not, at some level, artifice.

Nadie es adulto por disfrazarse de adulto. Ni disfrazarse de joven hace joven a nadie. Es evidente que a muchas personas se les hace cuesta arriba aceptar las etapas de su vida con sus realidades concretas.

Qualquer sonho que eu pudesse acalentar sobre a magia de uma grande, famosa e elegante cozinha nova-iorquina foi substituído pelo orgulho triste dos expedientes criativos e pela satisfação técnica de ser suficientemente rápido para aguentar e safar-me com truques, mentiras e disfarces.

Servants are wonderful actors, looking often as though they knew nothing when they know everything, — as though they understood nothing, when they understand all.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

Orice tehnologie suficient de avansat? nu poate fi deosebit? de magie.

Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards!

It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

have from all quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask. "This is indeed a mystery

I think we are only afraid of ourselves, the doctor said slowly. No, Luke said. Of seeing ourselves clearly and without disguise.

I think we are only afraid of ourselves," the doctor said slowly. "No," Luke said. "Of seeing ourselves clearly and without disguise." "Of knowing what we really want

The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.

Secret communication achieved by hiding the existence of a message is known as steganography

The art of fiction is to present reality as though it's unreality." She addresses the whole room. "Be artful. Use disguises.

In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.