Quotes About Disguise

anger is always fear in disguise

Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him.

And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?

I often quite forgot to look at the face which, surrounded by a collar high above them, was set impassively on top of an evening shirt or a glittering décolletage, a cold social mask.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far.

The civilized people in the world, the ones who hide behind culture and art and politics… and even the law, they're the ones to watch out for. They've got that perfect disguise goin' for them, you know? But they're the most vicious. They're the most dangerous people on earth.

There were elegantly made up women sitting on bus benches who were not really women and not really waiting for buses.

She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or

De mess leek eigenlijk meer op een goedkoop visrestaurant dan op een oorlogsonderzeeboot.

He walked around the Las Vegas casino incredulous at the spectacle before him: seven thousand people, all of whom seemed delighted with the world as they found it. A society with deep, troubling economic problems had rigged itself to disguise those problems, and the chief beneficiaries of the deceit were its financial middlemen.

That guy might look like Arnold but it can't possibly be Arnold because Arnold would never be out alone on a bike at seven in the morning, trying to commit suicide.

Eisman took the cart to the clubhouse and bought a hoodie. The hoodie covered up his t-shirt and made him look a lot like a guy who had just bought a hoodie to cover up his t-shirt.

The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.

A Holy War! What better than righteous piety to disguise over-reaching greed?

That there was nothing more assuring than a mask. Under the mask she could rewrite herself into any place, in any form.