Quotes About Disguise

From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.

From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away. Her mouth was too wide, her eyes

And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)

Such tasks are always the obstacles to becoming, to being set free, or finding love. Carrying out the tasks undoes the curse. Enchantment in these stories is the state of being disguised, displaced in an animal's body or another's identity. Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself.

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

Friendship requires trust, empathy, and acceptance. I don't want to feel that I have to wear a disguise in front of my friends; otherwise, the friendship is worth nothing. Friendship means being accepted by a person for the way you are, and vice versa.

every which way, making her resemble a cross between Cruella DeVille and Medusa, she thought disgustedly. She needed a barrette, a headband, something. Inspiration struck. Lou rifled through the bridal debris until she found the item she'd been looking for: her veil. Lips pursed

On reflection, my imagined Hindu litigator would have been as likely to play the 'If you can't beat them join them' card. His polytheism isn't really polytheism but monotheism in disguise.

There are people like that in the world—people with something wrong with them that can be disguised but won't be denied, and which dominates them.

In Jewish folk music, despair is disguised as the dance. And so, truth's disguise was irony.

When truth-speaking becomes impossible - because it led to immediate death - it had to be disguised. In Jewish folk music, despair is disguised as the dance. And so, truth's disguise was irony.

vapidity was an excellent disguise for many qualities.

Is it a blessing in disguise, or is it just a disguise? And if it's just a disguise, then what is it disguising?

Up there I'm just passing as me.

In the old tales, when people undertake quests, they find themselves fighting dragons or serpents or giant dogs. Or maybe a dark warrior of some kind, folk who are enemies from the start. But it's far more frightening when someone seems friendly and good, and turns out to be different altogether. The odd and uncanny are not terrifying in themselves. The most disturbing thing is the ordinary turned strange. Things familiar and safe becoming not right.

Mistress Blackthorn? Fool. Who else would it be?

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

Of course, according to one theory a mask is apparently the expression of an extremely metaphysical aspiration to give oneself a kind of transcendental disguise, for the mask is not simply something compensatory.

The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.

had there not been concealed in my mask from the beginning a scheme of revenge?

If the convention of the face were empty, perhaps a disguise too was just as empty.

isn't the mask something required mainly by the victim and the disguise, on the contrary, by the assailant?

what they sold in the bar was the fake mask of alcohol.

thanks to the mask, signs of fatigue or shame showed on my face no more than on yours.