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Quotes About Disguise

Most people, however clever, however controlled, never hid it completely. There were chinks, clues, habits. At some point, the real person showed through the facade.
~ J.D. Robb
It may be you confused undercover with undercovered.
~ J.D. Robb
In this state, the club was The Wizard of Oz made obvious: All the magic that went on here night after night, all the buzz and excitement, was really just a combination of electronics, booze, and chemicals, an illusion for the people who walked through the front doors, a fantasy that allowed them to be whatever they weren't in their day-to-day lives.
~ J.R. Ward
I am not 'I am' but just a spy in somebody's body.
~ Jack Kerouac
My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.
~ Ken Bruen
He's so ugly he should have to wear an oxygen mask.
~ Mickey Rivers
It's really hard to truly want people who you hate to have the right to say whatever they want. And we all disguise the ugly self-centeredness of it.
~ Jim Norton
Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing
~ Kiersten White, And I Darken
How can I pretend that nothing happened?
~ Diane Samuels
Humor is the mask of wisdom.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.
~ Burton Malkiel
During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.
~ Xavier Forneret
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
~ Benjamin Franklin
yourself into a sheep, and you'll meet a wolf nearby.
~ Talia Carner
You look as scary as a buttered muffin.
~ Tamora Pierce
They always act like they're having an amazing time, they're louder and high-pitched, shoving each other and screaming with laughter at nothing. But Becca knows what they're like when they're happy, and that's not it. Their faces on the way home afterwards look older and strained, smeared with the scraps of leftover expressions that were pressed on too hard and won't lift away.
~ Tana French
I'd been expecting someone so nondescript he was practically invisible, maybe the Cancer Man from The X Files, but this guy had rough, blunt features and wide blue eyes, and the kind of presence that leaves heat streaks on the air where he's been.
~ Tana French
I could get a fedora and a trench coat and a wisecracking sense of humor; she could sit poised at hotel bars with a slinky red dress and a camera in her lipstick, to snare cheating businessmen…. I almost laughed out loud.
~ Tana French
My life is fancy dress, so I prefer not to do it in my spare time.
~ Toni Collette
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.
~ David Bowie
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?
~ Neal Stephenson
Though some efforts had been made to camouflage their essential nature, they were really just guns for shooting humans, albeit humans strapped into comfortable, pressurized bullets.
~ Neal Stephenson