Disguise Quotes - page 4

There's something in my eye. Bloodshot in disguise. God knows I really tried. Making the big time. Aiming to climb high. (Ed Harcourt)
Naked is the best disguise. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. View quote
Erica Jong
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. View quote
George Santayana
Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit. View quote
Richard Bach
In the past fifteen years, Marxist approaches towards literature have enjoyed increasing vogue. To be conscious of the social context of art seems to automatically entail a leftist orientation. But a theory is possible that is both avant-garde and capitalist. Marxism was one of Rousseau's nineteenth-century progeny, energized by faith in the perfectabilty of man. Its belief that economic forces are the primary dynamic force in history is Romantic naturism in disguise. ... Marxism is the bleakest of anxiety-formations against the power of cthonian mothers. View quote
Camille Paglia
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. View quote
Cardinal Richelieu
Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Could it be, he wondered, that the goldenness was the Hazers' life force and that they wore it like a cloak, as a sort of over-all disguise? Did they wear that life force on the outside of them while all other creatures wore it on the inside? View quote
Clifford D. Simak
things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision. View quote
E. E. Cummings
How can you sleep How can you turn away Thinking so cheap? Some day you're gonna pay! You're keeping secrets I can see in your eyes: Can anybody tell me Why the big disguise? (Mike Oldfield)
But there are two things that different kinds of people believe that are the worst, most dangerous, wrongest of all. Some people believe that the best way to solve a problem is with violence; they beat up or kill anyone who disagrees with them." ... "But what's the other worst kind of bad thinking?" "Pacifism," she said. "That's just the opposite of the first kind of bad thinking. Pacificists believe that you should never lift a hand against another human being, no matter what he has done or what you know he's going to do." ... "Some pacificists are cowards in disguise, but some really believe it's right to permit the murder of an innocent person rather than kill to stop it. They're wrong because by not fighting evil, they've become part of it. View quote
Dean Koontz
I can tell you this at least. The most convincing disguise for legitimacy is legitimacy itself. View quote
Jack Vance
These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations. View quote
C. Wright Mills
Evil flourishes best in disguise,” said Otto grimly. His companions nodded in assent. "And the best disguise is simple” said the youth, Federit Shaus. "Honest patriotism. Joyful idealism.” "You're a cynic, lad,” von Bek smiled at him. "But sadly my own experience would support your view. Show me a man who cries ‘my country right or wrong', and I'll show you one who'd cheerfully murder half his own nation in the name of patriotism. View quote
Michael Moorcock
At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise? View quote
Talib Kweli
We played against each other like puppets, swearing you got pull When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes Getting knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the smog Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene. View quote
Talib Kweli
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you. View quote
Douglas Coupland
[In] economics... you can disguise charlatanism under the weight of equations and nobody can catch you since there is no such thing as a controlled experiment. Now the spirit of such methods, called scientism by its detractors, continued into the discipline of finance as a few technicians thought their mathematical knowledge could lead them to understand markets. The practice of financial engineering came along with massive doses of pseudoscience. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But the most lasting agony of this war was suffered, not by the defeated, but by the victors. For when their passion had cooled the Americans could not easily disguise from themselves that they had committed murder. They were not at heart a brutal folk, but rather a kindly. They liked to think of the world as a place of innocent pleasure-seeking, and of themselves as the main purveyors of delight. Yet they had been somehow drawn into this fantastic crime; and henceforth an all-pervading sense of collective guilt warped the American mind. They had ever been vainglorious and intolerant; but now these qualities in them became extravagant even to insanity. Both as individuals and collectively, they became increasingly frightened of criticism, increasingly prone to blame and hate, increasingly self-righteous, increasingly hostile to the critical intelligence, increasingly superstitious. (Olaf Stapledon)
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
For many years he had suffered from consumption, aggravated perhaps by his work of glass polishing. On Sunday, February 21, 1677, the end came unexpectedly, and almost suddenly. ... Credit must be given to Colerus [John Kohler]... for his downright contradiction of the tales concerning Spinoza's death-bed which were circulated, it would seem, by persons who thought it would tend to edification to represent Spinoza as the blustering infidel of popular orthodox polemics, who is invariably assailed by doubt and disquietude in his last moments, and as invariably strives to disguise them with feeble bravado. Colerus very honestly says that the people of the house... knew nothing of any such matters, and did not believe a word of them. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
One tortured soul I know who suffers from amazingly premature ejaculation -- I mean so premature that he hasn't got any children after eleven years of marriage -- was told by the priest that it was probably a blessing in disguise. What a piece of advice to give to a poor sod who comes off at the sound of his wife's car in the drive. View quote
Tom Baker
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. View quote
Publilius Syrus