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Quotes About Disguise

Meni se, me?utim, ?ini da umjesto zidova svuda vidim samo kulise. A razaranje kulisa stvar je dobra i pravedna.
~ Milan Kundera
Kanalizacione cevi koje svojim ograncima dopiru do naših stanova brižljivo su skrivene od našeg pogleda, i mi ne znamo ništa o nevidljivoj Veneciji govana iznad koje su podignuta naša kupatila, spava?e sobe, plesne dvorane i parlamenti.
~ Milan Kundera
Se há coisa que sempre me enojou profundamente no homem é realmente ver como a sua crueldade, a sua baixeza e a sua estupidez arranjam maneira de se disfarçar sob a máscara do lirismo.
~ Milan Kundera
Karel had put a mask of Nora on Eva and put a child's mask on himself, and Marketa had removed the head from his body. He was a man's body without a head. Karel disappeared and a miracle occurred: Marketa was free and joyous!
~ Milan Kundera
Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
~ Ovid
I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.
~ Sophie McShera
Never sign a valentine with your own name.
~ Charles Dickens
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
~ Tahereh Mafi
Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
It would be a surprise manoeuvre. A handpicked squad led by him would carry out the mission. Dressed in Cluny's war helmet and armour, Redtooth would stay back in the meadow. His disguise would be sufficient to fool the defenders from the distance of the high walls.
~ Brian Jacques
My dad believes that bad disguises itself - that danger hides. I think it's the opposite. The truly horrible things about the world are always reaching out for you.
~ Brian James
For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.
~ Brian Weiss
When you see a giant, make sure it isn't a dwarf standing in a favourable light. Thus we approach 'the mystery of Jack the Ripper.
~ Bruce Robinson
Entra Tom. Va vestido como un marino mercante. Cruza hasta la escalera de incendios, donde se detiene y enciende un cigarrillo. Se dirige el público.   TOM: Es cierto, me reservo algunos trucos, me guardo algún as en la manga. Pero soy lo contrario de un mago de la escena. Él ofrece una ilusión con apariencia de verdad, yo os entregaré la verdad con el amable disfraz de la ilusión.
~ Tennessee Williams
Abby_Donovan: C'mon…who are you really? Are you hiding a secret identity? Are you Batman? Ashton Kutcher?
~ Teresa Medeiros
Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.
~ Terry Pratchett
An Assassin, a real Assassin, had to look like one - black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?
~ Terry Pratchett
Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.
~ Terry Pratchett
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people.
~ Terry Pratchett
There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ?
~ Terry Pratchett
She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently been able to keep this a secret from people.
~ Terry Pratchett
She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.
~ Terry Pratchett
The truly smart, having discovered they are cleverer than the people around them, soon learn that the smartest thing of all for them to do is to prevent said people from ever finding this out.
~ Terry Pratchett
Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things. Well-known fact," said Granny. "But I don't hold with encouraging it.
~ Terry Pratchett