Quotes About Disguise

She had grown so accustomed to this exterior that she didn't always remember what truly lay underneath. Nor did she particularly want to. Why fester in disillusion, bewilderment, and anger when she could float above and pretend to be this sunny, charming girl instead?

And then Sherlock Holmes had turned out to be a woman with loose morals and no remorse.

Disguise is what enhances the experience of a BLESSING!!!!

When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg.

aAlina Cerunda was pretty despite her seventy years. Anyone who says she wasn't is a liar. However, old people always look like they're in disguise, and that ruins everything.

Talking to yourself is the last subterfuge.

Someone sitting on a completely unreasonable belief is sitting on a time bomb. The apparently harmless, idiosyncratic belief of the Catholic Church that one thing may have the substance of another, although it displays absolutely none of its empirical qualities, prepares people for the view that some people are agents of Satan in disguise, which in turn makes it reasonable to destroy them.

Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face.

the body is nothing but camouflage.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

And the pen, as it were, Dear Reader, is now in my hand, and I am claiming the advantage, taking it for myself, for you will notice that the written word hides the body of the one who writes. For all you know, I might be a MAN in disguise. Unlikely, you say, with all this feminist prattle flying out here and there and everywhere, but can you be sure?

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

They realized that the best way to mask what they were doing was to hide it in plain sight. Instead of lying about the sweeps themselves, they just lied about what they were sweeping for.

Scherz ist die drittbeste Tarnung. Die zweitbeste: Sentimentalität. Aber die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise. Die glaubt niemand.

Scherz ist die drittbeste Tarnung. Die zweitbeste: Sentimentalität. (...) Aber die beste und sicherste Tarnung (finde ich) ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Komischerweise. Die glaubt niemand.

We wear the mask that grins and lies. It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes. This debt we pay to human guile With torn and bleeding hearts… We smile and mouth the myriad subtleties. Why should the world think otherwise In counting all our tears and sighs. Nay let them only see us while We wear the mask.

Looks can be deceiving.

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. "We were traveling anonymously for safety—" explained the magus. "But surely—" "—and then we were robbed on the road." "Ah," said the king, "the danger in being anonymous.

Oh how inconspicuous I will be when next I am in Attolia, he said out loud, dressed in Eddisan formalwear with gold frogs on the front.

She marveled at the selections Moira and Gretchen had made. As if they were both professional wardrobe planners. Or perhaps just angels in disguise.