Quotes About Disguise

Ublala Pung grunted a laugh. 'They'd never find her if it was a manhunt.

Failure wears many guises, and I have worn them all.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Dressed as man, and with all the poise of someone at least six years older, he had learned quickly from his Magravandian classmates.

A young man had come into the garden. Not dead, then, but returned. A sense of recognition flooded through her, she felt her flesh grow hot. It was Khaster. She nearly choked, but after only a moment, she realized it was someone who looked like him, who'd stolen his brother's face.

All the time he had been lying in wait, pretending to be something he wasn't.

The woman directed a scorching gaze at Barbara and Othman, hardly bothering to disguise the suspicion in her eyes that here was a moneyed middle-aged housewife out with her bit of rough. The suspicion was peppered with resentment and envy disguised as scorn.

His face was a leering mask, all vestige of beauty fled.

If anyone could penetrate our disguise in the world, they could.

She was imaginative and naturally wild, but no one who met the demure, tidy child would ever have guessed that.

In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.

And if her heart was breaking with every step she took, at least he would never know.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Lust arrives as an angel disguised as love, but it's still lust, not love.

lie can run but they can't hide

We are meant to do the work of angels for we are often disguised from ourSelves.

When you wear a mask, you are not real.

Because sometimes evil didn't show its ugly self; it could put on the clothes of an ordinary boy. The boy could sit across the table from you, a stray lock of hair hanging in his eyes. He could be doing all the regular things boys do, shoveling in the mashed potatoes, pushing the peas around on his plate, preferring peach cobbler over rhubarb in the late summer while the wasps batted the window screen and the fan on the sideboard rotated.

ALL CHILDREN KEEP SECRETS. All parents do the same. We mold the version we want others to believe, boosting the disguise and tucking away the truth. It is how we can be loved by our closest family members and still, at times, elude them.

Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart.

The day on which he [Épernon] arrives, and so long as he remains, I shall dress myself in garments which I shall never wear again: those of dissimulation and hypocrisy

a girl had supposedly disguised herself as a man to fight in her father's stead, had become companion to a military dragon and saved the empire by winning a great battle;

I would have thought only that the money must have come from a strongroom somewhere, a chest full of gold like a duke would have or a tsar. I wouldn't have thought of it coming from quiet men in plain coats who didn't ride in carriages.

That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.