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Quotes About Disguise

Under all that sunny generosity of Wilder's, who's really there? What's under that mask? Is there a mask? Theater is the place of masks. Do the three
~ Thornton Wilder
That mask of Wilder's
~ Thornton Wilder
but I managed to masquerade as a person having a good time.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Doing 'White Collar ' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.
~ Tim DeKay
I could rob a bank and no one would notice me, but Rock Hudson! He's a movie star.
~ Ken Berry
I'm allergic to a lot of fruit and veg, but if I hide them in a drink, somehow my body doesn't notice.
~ Lolly Adefope
Jeff is in the line of unillegal graft. He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans; he is a reducer of surplusage. His favorite disguise is that of the target-bird at which the spendthrift or the reckless investor may shy a few inconsequential dollars. He is readily vocalized by tobacco; so, with the aid of two thick and easy-burning brevas, I got the story of his latest Autolycan adventure.
~ O. Henry
I have a special pair of poop shoes under my desk. Whenever I need to drop a deuce, I slip them on and scurry to the restroom, and no one ever knows it's me. Like, if I'm wearing Louboutins that day, and my producer sees Earth shoes in the stall....well, you get the idea. It was truly a lightbulb moment when that came to me.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You'll learn it all soon enough . . . You will see everything without being seen. You will hear everything but pretend that you haven't . . . You will walk for ten hours a day but feel like you haven't walked at all.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.
~ Orson Scott Card
Once these two had been joined together in love, or something like love; they had made two babies, and yet, only fifteen years later, the last tie between them was broken now. All lost, all gone. Nothing lasted, nothing. Even this forty-million-year world that the Oversoul had preserved as if in ice, even it would melt before the fire. Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.
~ Orson Scott Card
Piensa que sea imposible disfrazarse con una identidad sin convertirte en lo que se finge ser.
~ Orson Scott Card
First thing we need to do," said Bean, "is split up." "No," said Petra. "I've done this before, Petra. Going into hiding. Keeping from getting caught." "And if we're together we're too identifiable, la la la," she said. "Saying 'la la la' doesn't mean it isn't true.
~ Orson Scott Card
Puede que sea imposible disfrazarse con una identidad sin convertirse en lo que se finge ser.
~ Orson Scott Card
A mask tells us more than a face.
~ Oscar Wilde
Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth.
~ Oscar Wilde
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
~ Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth
~ Oscar Wilde
Oh, it'll definitely fool the Germans, Cess said. There's no clearer proof that there's an army in the area than beer bottles and used condoms.
~ Connie Willis
He'd long been wearing the underclothes of his female victims but now he took to appearing in their outerwear as well. A gothic doll in illfit clothes, its carmine mouth floating detached and bright in the white landscape.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)
~ D. J. MacHale
It is by giving fair names to foul actions that those who would start at real vice are led to practise its lessons, under the disguise of virtue.
~ Walter Scott
It is only when taught deceit by the commerce of the world, that we learn to shroud our character from observation, and to disguise our real sentiments from those with whom we are placed in communion.
~ Walter Scott