Quotes About Disguise

If hell...has one complexion more hideous than another, it is where villainy is masked by hypocracy

The readiest mode to corrupt a Christian man is to bestow upon vice the pity and the praise which are due only to virtue. Your Baron of Roussillon is a monster of cruelty; but your unfortunate lovers were not the less guilty. 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.

But patriotism, as it is the fairest, so it is often the most suspicious mask of other feelings;

the author's judgment is always present, always evident to anyone who knows how to look for it. Whether its particular forms are harmful or serviceable is always a complex question, a question that cannot be settled by any easy reference to abstract rules. As we begin now to deal with this question, we must never forget that though the author can to some extent choose his disguises, he can never choose to disappear.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

I'd seen better days, but I wasn't about to instigate widespread panic with my appearance, either. I made a show of washing up and pretending that I was an ordinary, civilized woman who was, perhaps, recovering from a bad date—and who had most certainly not been hiding bodies in anybody's basement.

What mental hospital have you escaped from?" She wanted to laugh, but he looked so serious. "Prove you're an alien. Rip off your disguise. Show me your antennae. Where's your union card?

The mustached Polish guy turned out to be a mustached FBI guy.

One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

I have a very simple belief about acting. The job of the actor is to play someone who they are not.

The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations.

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

Thw world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise.

We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.

Los nuevos soldados estarán en general más deseosos de luchar y morir por sus causas. Rara vez llevarán uniformes y puede resultar difícil distinguirlos de la población general. También estarán muy lejos de sentirse coartados por las convenciones y más probablemente procurarán buscar medios innovadores para conseguir sus objetivos.

Sarah smiled, one of those little childish smiles she was so good at. It very nearly broke the Doctor's heart. 'You know what I think? I think you don't really regenerate at all. I think you just keep taking off masks.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

The assassin wore only a Speedo and his lean body was slathered with sunscreen that made him smell like a baked coconut.

this point I could not show myself, of course, or all would

Sufism delves into the hidden truth behind the disguise.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.