Quotes About Disguise

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.

He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

It is the complete system of divine truth to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be taken with impunity. Every attempt to disguise or soften any branch of this truth in order to accommodate it to the prevailing taste around us either to avoid the displeasure or court the favor of our fellow mortals must be an affront to the majesty of God and an act of treachery to men.

I realized that the Internet could be a mask as surely as any cowl. I could assume an identity — and this time, not a second-hand version of someone else. This would be mine — my mask, my shield — my persona." 

The children I teach are uneasy with intimacy or candor. They cannot deal with genuine intimacy because of a lifelong habit of preserving a secret inner self inside a larger outer personality made up of artificial bits and pieces of behavior borrowed from television or acquired to manipulate teachers. Because they are not who they represent themselves to be, the disguise wears thin in the presence of intimacy; so intimate relationships have to be avoided.

Few laymen understand that the synthesizing theories of Science are religious revelations in disguise.

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It was a strategy that disguised itself as love and concern, and thus one against which he was helpless.

the façade he has erected not so much to disguise himself from another as to mask himself against his own recognition.

You think my life is camouflage?" Ben held the stare. "Sir, I think everything you do from the moment you wake up to the moment you let yourself sleep is nothing more than a shadow dance.

My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me.

I was hiding from them even while I moved among them.

Rubbish," Max said. "Anyone can put on clumpy boots and pierce themselves silly. A truly dangerous person would be someone you'd never even look at twice.

It's very lonely, feeling like an outcast. Like you are invited to a costume party, but you are the only one in a mask.

I had Trevor Mitchell's clothes in my arms. His sweater, V-neck, undershirt, khakis, socks, loafers, and underwear. I had his power. His mask. I had his whole life. What was a girl to do? This girl ran. I ran so hard, like I had never run before. Like I had been training every day in gym class. If Mr. Harris could have seen me then, he surely would have put me on the track team.

You never know what somebody might tell you,' Chris said, 'when they think you're somebody else.

I shouldn't think I'll have the slightest problem playing a man," she said. "I shall merely remember to rearrange my breeches in front at least once an hour, thereby drawing attention to the padding I carefully placed there in the morning, and I'll blend in perfectly.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

one can merely disguise one's wounds

Strictly speaking, history does not repeat itself, but since the illusions man is capable of are limited in number, they always return in another disguise, thereby giving some ultradecrepit filth a look of novelty and a tragic glaze.