Quotes About Disguise

Worry is fear in disguise.

Many, many mantles are worn—or discarded—on Halloween night, wizard.

When you have a problem, you have a problem," I said thoughtfully. I nodded at Cristos. "When you have two problems, sometimes one of them is a solution in disguise.

So, in the end, we were hypocrites for kindness. Both of us. Standing with my bouquet of orange blossoms, I thought: I'm happy but I'm in disguise. But probably many people feel that at their weddings.

I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.

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

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

My bus carried at least a few soldiers in civilian disguise, although the rest of the General's in-laws and cousins were mostly women and children. These passengers murmured among themselves, complaining of this or that, which I ignored. Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell.

[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.

The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

You know what he did for a living before the war? Sold champagne. A liquor salesman, Sandy. A fake—a plutocrat and a thief and a fake. Even the 'von' in his name is a fake.

Instead, employing the disguise of my own face and name, I listened intently to all the suppositions spawned by his unbearable grievance, to the suffering spilling out of him in every word; I studied him with the coldhearted fascination and intense excitement of a well-placed spy.

If you mean Charles Stuart,' Frances's voice rang out clearly in the hall, 'then calling him he of whom you were speaking is hardly a brilliant disguise. And if that is your idea of deep concealment then I don't anticipate great success, on the day of which you have spoken, or any other day, actually.

Twelfth night, of all the nights of the year, is one where shapes shift and identities flicker.

Pues bien, del mismo modo el malo, si ha de ser un hombre auténticamente malo, debe reali­zar con destreza sus malas acciones y pasar inadvertido con ellas. Y al que se deje sorprender en ellas hay que considerarlo inhábil, pues no hay mayor perfección en el mal que el parecer ser bueno no siéndolo.

Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician and the cook had to enter into a competition in which children were the judges, or men who had no more sense than children, as to which of them best understands the goodness or badness of food, the physician would be starved to death.