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Quotes About Disguise

Now Odysseus was sitting close to the fire, but suddenly turned to the dark side; 390 for presently he thought in his heart that, as she handled him, she might be aware of his scar, and all his story might come out. She came up close and washed her lord, and at once she recognized that scar, which once the boar with his white tusk had inflicted on him, when he went to Parnassos, to
~ Homer
Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.
~ Hugo Hamilton
Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise.
~ Iain M. Banks
clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires.
~ Ian Fleming
The journal preserved her dignity; she might look and behave like and live the life of a trained nurse, but she was really an important writer in disguise. And at a time when she was cut off from everything she knew - family, home, friends - writing was the thread of continuity. It was what she had always done.
~ Ian Mcewan
Ah, mirosul am?rui al pielii unei alte persoane, acest veÅŸmânt menit s? ascund? miezul de fecale.
~ Ian Mcewan
I took the jacket off, changed my T-shirt for a dark gray tank top, slipped on the tangle of the back sheath, and put the jacket on again. Thugs are us. Great. Just add a super-tight ponytail and loads of mascara, and I'd be ripe to play a supervillain's evil mistress. Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.
~ Ilona Andrews
Did you hear that? a woman asked. I crouched behind the growth. No. No, you didn't hear anything. Don't mind me, I'm not hiding the corpse of a nasty creature behind your flower bed. Nope. Nothing here but cute, fluffy bunnies scampering adorably into the night...
~ Ilona Andrews
You know, when you make something in live-action, you make it real. And when you are inspired by and determined to honor the original - the most original version of the 'Mulan' story - then you have to acknowledge that this is a story about a young woman who disguises herself as a man and goes to war.
~ Niki Caro
As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.
~ Romesh Gunesekera
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
~ V. S. Pritchett
Mum snuck me into speech and drama classes and into the National Youth Theatre and said I was going on a summer camp if Dad asked.
~ Adeel Akhtar
As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
~ Moran Atias
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
~ Alexander Pope
All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!
~ Carrie Fisher
I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
~ LeBron James
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.
~ Jonah Goldberg
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
~ Vicki Lawrence
It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.
~ Erin Morgenstern
We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As
~ Steven Erikson
We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten
~ Steven Erikson
An assassin should never see the face behind the victim's mask.
~ Steven Erikson
Brother, you look unwell.' Appearances deceive, Greyfrog. For example, you have never looked prettier.
~ Steven Erikson