Quotes About Disguise

es verdad, la cultura medieval tiene el sentido de la innovación, pero se las ingenia para esconderlo bajo el disfraz de la repetición (al contrario de la cultura moderna, que finge innovar incluso cuando repite).

America's leading newspaper proprietors, Mr. Hearst and Colonel McCormick, Cissy Patterson and Frank Gannett, were loyal friends of Nazi-Fascism, operating under democratic disguise. Their tens of millions of readers were by now thoroughly indoctrinated, and the mothers of America wanted nothing but to get their sons out of this world holocaust.

They all looked like families coming back from Church, wearing their Sunday best. In reality, they were refugees who had no idea how drastically their lives were about to change.

Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.

evil condoned wears the mask of benevolence

Phantoms do not wear round hats.

flaps and buttons. She concealed her gray hair

The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other than Jean Valjean.

Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious confusion?

mien identical, only more depressed. But why these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified that disguise? Marius was greatly astonished. When he recovered

One of the best ways to disappear in plain sight was to dress like a wren - brown, brown, and more brown.

Der Vorteil der Klugheit besteht darin, daß man sich dumm stellen kann. Das Gegenteil ist schon schwieriger.

Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens?

Julian: What's black inside, white outside, and hot? Jenny: What? Julian: A wolf in sheep's clothing. Jenny: Is that what you are? Julian: Me? No, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a Vizor and a Face.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

We are so used to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we disguise ourselves even to ourselves.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

Our virtues are usually just vices in disguise.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.