Quotes About Camouflage

We have the masks

All warfare is based on deception, Sun Tzu had said. When we are able to attack, we must seem unable. When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

It looked like a bird - in the same way that a wolf looked like a lapdog.

Throw a blanket over it!

We know how to chameleon our way through the day

She almost blended in with the wall, dissolved, faded. Could a person become so pale that she was no longer visible?

He should see nothing, he should learn nothing; for him she would always wear a mask.

A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

To be invisible is to be free.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

You can disappear here without knowing it.

Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.

I learned that the greatest camouflage of all is consistency. If you do something often enough and at the same time in the same way, you become invisible.

He just wanted to blend in quietly and not be noticed, like a bug on a riverbank.

But if intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to sharpen it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies—to use it as cats use stealth, as walking sticks use camouflage, to make it the tool of our survival.

Without the qualities of solidity, freedom, peace, and joy, fine manners are not really fine manners. They are just a camouflage called false Zen (a false sign of meditation practice).

I will wear any skin to get in.

Even if she'd [Ossie] gotten away from him [her ghost fiancé] the prognostications were grim—alligators with unusual pigmentation can't camouflage themselves in the dust-and-olive palette of the swamp. Their skin is spotlit for predators. That's why you don't see albino Seths [Ava's pet name for alligators] in the wild. Once an alligator reaches a size of four feet its only real predator is man.

wishing I could read his face, but it was hidden