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Quotes About Camouflage

For myself, with no one to love, a hedgehog spirit seemed best and I hid my heart in the leaves.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.
~ Nana Patekar
I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn't find any.
~ Tommy Cooper
It's hard to hide a hundred girls in your hair.
~ Tori Amos
Disguise ourselves as grass?" Swordtail suggested. "Disguise ourselves as shrubs! DISGUISE OURSELVES AS ELEPHANTS THAT'S IT LET'S DO IT.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The relevant framework is not one of morality but of survival. At every level, from brute camouflage to poetic vision, the linguistic capacity to conceal, misinform, leave ambiguous, hypothesize, invent is indispensable to the equilibrium of human consciousness and to the development of man in society....—George Steiner, After Babel
~ Paul Ekman
If they make it, they can blend in.
~ Paul Theroux
Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.
~ Bob Dylan
I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks
~ Janna Cachola
This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.
~ Dave Eggers
both because of the cold and also to help hide his face.
~ David Baldacci
But you can gift wrap a piece of shit and it's still a piece of shit.
~ Unknown
What's interesting to Hal Incandenza about his take on Struck, sometimes Pemulis, Evan Ingersoll, et al. is that congenital plagiarists put so much more work into camouflaging their plagiarism than it would take just to write up an assignment from conceptual scratch. It usually seems like plagiarists aren't lazy so much as kind of navigationally insecure. They have trouble navigating without a detailed map's assurance that somebody has been this way before them.
~ David Foster Wallace
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.
~ William Shakespeare
To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
~ William Shakespeare
The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself
~ William Shakespeare
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
~ Wodehouse
Liars are chameleons that take on any colour.
~ Clifford Thurlow
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
~ Herman Melville
He looks down at them and arranges his face. Erasmus says that you must do this each morning before you leave your house: "put on a mask, as it were.
~ Hilary Mantel
I crossed the Agcawayan River and reached a position about three hundred yards from the appointed spot. It was only about four o'clock, so I still had plenty of time. I changed to a camouflage of fresh leaves.
~ Hiroo Onoda
Maska ir ?r?j? paties?ba. Nevis t?p?c, ka atkl?j, kas aiz t?s sl?pjas, bet t?p?c, ka aiz t? nek? nav.
~ Unknown
That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked like everybody else.
~ Holly Black
I am well-practiced at being unnoticed, especially here of all places.
~ Holly Black