Disguise Quotes - page 8

Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not. (Ani DiFranco)
We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. View quote
Donna Tartt
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing. View quote
Anne Carson
Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. View quote
Mother Teresa
Though we may in quiet times confront the fact that we are going to die, much of our daily life is lived in the artificial realness created through culture. This illusion of realness helps to disguise our unconscious fear that everything is highly vulnerable and transitory. View quote
Gareth Morgan
The peninsula of India would be one of the first peopled countries, and its inhabitants would have all the habits of the progenitors of man before the flood in as much perfection or more than any other nation... In short, whatever learning man possessed before his dispersion may be expected to be found here, and of this, Hindustan affords innumerable traces... notwithstanding ... the fruitless efforts of our priests to disguise it. View quote
Godfrey Higgins
He walked around the Las Vegas casino incredulous at the spectacle before him: seven thousand people, all of whom seem delighted with the world as they found it. A society with deep, troubling economic problems had rigged itself to disguise those problems, and the chief beneficiaries of the deceit were its financial middlemen. How could this be? View quote
Michael Lewis (author)
Most artists, whether in religion, music, literature, painting, or what not, are shopkeepers in disguise. They hide their shop as much as they can, and keep pretending that it does not exist, but they are essentially shopkeepers and nothing else. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
She...cast an eye over the contents of his cart, wondering whether this was totally random stuff...to perfect his Walmart shopper disguise: 5.56-millimeter cartridges, a water purification device, jerky, bug repellent, a camouflage hat. Freeze-dried meals. A roll of black plastic sheeting. Parachute cord. Batteries. A folding bucksaw. Camouflage binoculars.... It turned out that Sokolov really did want to buy all that stuff. Not because he envisioned any particular use for it. He just believed in stocking up on such things, on general principles, whenever an opportunity presented itself. He would fit in well here. View quote
Neal Stephenson
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still. (Thomas Moore)
When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise. View quote
Henry Rollins
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. View quote
Arthur Helps
She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
When the person Myth meets the person Reality The spirit of the impossible-strange appears In dark disguise It is always there where nothing inverts itself and becomes something Whatever is the imperative need. View quote
Sun Ra
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid. View quote
Alice Meynell
Now will I, in my old way, discover the whole and real truth of the matter to him, that he may not suspect one word on't. No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. View quote
William Congreve
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. View quote
William Congreve
Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor. View quote
Tad Williams
In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us. (Sue Johnson)
Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic. View quote
Edward de Bono
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause. View quote
Thomas More
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters. View quote
Thomas More