Quotes About Disguise

The man's head nodded to his chest; he looked like a drunk who had dozed off. But it was an act.

Giordino: I've been wanting to say this, but you look vaguely familiar. The Kid: Can't imagine why. I don't recall meeting up with you fellas before. Giordino: Would I offend you if I asked you your real name? The Kid: Not at all, I don't take offense easily. It's an odd name. Never used it much. It's Clive Cussler. Giordino: You're right, it is an odd name.

As Maeve hurried from the study, she turned and took one last look at her father and Boudicca, whom she always thought of as her sister, an older sibling who remained distant and seldom displayed anything but animosity, but a sister nonetheless. Her father had kept the secret well, enduring the shame and hiding it from the world. It sickened her to discover after all these years that Boudicca was a man.

You go on about reasons, Cora said, call things by other names, as if it changes what they are. But that doesn't make them true. ....It's true though, your complaint. We come up with all sorts of fancy talk to hide things.

Deep down it still really bothered me, but I tried not to let it show.

A Bela e a Fera" ensina a lição simples, mas importante de que as aparências podem enganar e aquilo que é visto nem sempre é o que parece ser.

Allecto torvam faciem et furialia membra exuit, in vultus sese transformat anilis; et frontem obscenam rugis arat, induit albos cum vitta crinis, tum ramum innectit olivae; fit Calybe Iunonis anus templique sacerdos et iuveni ante oculos his se cum vocibus offert:

at ramum hunc' (aperit ramum, qui veste latebat) 'adgnoscas.

He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair. Dante

No one showed an instant's suspicion that Orlando was not the Orlando they had known. If any doubt there was in the human mind the action of the deer and the dogs would have been enough to dispel it, for the dumb creatures, as is well known, are far better judges both of identity and character than we are.

This was now revealed to Septimus; the message hidden in the beauty of words. The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair.

There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

Mlle Larivière bat alsbald Ada, sie zu einem abgelegenen Plätzchen zu begleiten. Dort nun stand die vollständig angezogene Dame in ihrem voluminösen Kleid, das seinen stattlichen Faltenwurf zwar beibehielt, aber offenbar um einen Zoll länger geworden war, so daß ihre Prünellenschuhe verdeckt wurden, stocksteif über einem verborgenen Platzregen und kehrte im nächsten Moment zu ihrer normalen Größe zurück. [...]

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

Y así es como le dices al mundo que las cosas no son siempre lo que parecen- concluyó el Ancestral-. Que hay humanos que parecen monstruos, y monstruos que parecen humanos;

Escucha, el chico renegado ha entrado en el castillo. Va disfrazado de szish. No me digas

Y recuerda que los peores monstruos son aquellos que no lo parecen.

Então algo mais acontece: tudo que a criança escuta de si mesma, positivo ou negativo, tem relação com o personagem que encarna, e assim, em sua necessidade desesperada de ser amada, a criança tentará ser o mais valente dos valentes, a mais bela das belas ou o mais doente dos doentes. Por quê? Porque se os adultos, ao olhá-la, olham seu personagem, então para ser olhada ela terá de exibir seu disfarce a fim de ser o melhor de todos.

I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell

He wouldn't have seen the wolf in redneck clothing.

The poop became a poop mountain; the pee became a pee ocean. And then somehow a Poop and Pee Airline was invented to fly travelers to Poop Mountain and Pee Ocean, although the code name for the airline was Dolphin Airlines, to keep the unsuspecting from being tipped off.

There is betrayal here, in what I do, but in betrayal I am finally camouflaged.

This error might have been intentional, to disguise the Spice Islands' location from outsiders