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Quotes About Disguise

It unsettles the women as they have dropped their disguise and are now giant praying mantis with blonde and auburn wigs, lipstick smeared on those deadly pincher-like insect jaws.
~ Irvine Welsh
We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up.
~ Irvine Welsh
If you told me he were Satan in masquerade, there would be a faint chance that I might believe you.
~ Isaac Asimov
Desde el punto de vista sociológico, es como si, cuando el viejo Imperio empezó a descomponerse en sus bordes, la ciencia les hubiese fallado a los mundos periféricos. Para que volvieran a aceptarla, tenía que aparecer disfrazada de otra cosa... Y eso es justo lo que ha pasado. Y ha funcionado a las mil maravillas.
~ Isaac Asimov
Hasta ese momento no tenía conciencia cabal de su doble personalidad, por una parte Diego de la Vega, elegante, melindroso, hipocondríaco, y por otra el Zorro, audaz, atrevido, juguetón. Suponía que en algún punto entremedio estaba su verdadero carácter, pero no sabía cómo era, si ninguno de los dos, o la suma de ambos.
~ Isabel Allende
Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
~ W. S. Gilbert
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
~ Arthur Helps
Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.
~ Ben Jonson
Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
~ E. R. Beadle
I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.
~ Stanislaw Lee
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
~ Anonymous
The cunning livery of hell.
~ William Shakespeare
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
~ Matthew Henry
My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
~ Quentin Tarantino
When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
~ Adam Grant
A lot of times, when I met somebody and took them out on a date, I obviously didn't tell them my background, because I didn't think I'd see them but once or twice.
~ Frank Abagnale
Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
~ Mary Gaitskill
I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.
~ Tom Clancy
Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me.
~ Nelson DeMille
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
~ Charles Lamb
Who the hell is that?! Some call her Satan. Others, Beelzebub. She goes by many names.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
~ Susan Glaspell
He likes pretending to be stern and cynical, perhaps to hide the fact that he is a softie and deeply sentimental. He
~ Susan Orlean
I decided that if he noticed my notebooks, I'd say that I was writing in my diary. A safe girl-thing to be doing.
~ Susanna Moore