Disguise Quotes

• Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

  Charles Lamb

  Sports, War, Games

  Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.45

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Age

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

  65 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

  93 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  91 Copy quote

• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

  Arthur Erickson

  Criminal Mind, Emptiness, Illusion

  "Criminal Minds: Persuasion". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2014.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Wise, Wisdom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

  Robert South

  Art, Laughter, World

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.495

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Men, Speech, Parole

  8 Copy quote

• I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

  Rupert Grint

  Sometimes, Really Cool, Certain

  6 Copy quote

• Naked is the best disguise.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Naked

  5 Copy quote

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Personality, Youth, Periods

  19 Copy quote

• Hills are speedwork in disguise.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  17 Copy quote

• Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters, in the heart of everyone she met, and especially in the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low. Jesus was in disguise in each one of them. Jesus was behind the foundation of her order. Jesus was behind all that she did.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Catholic, Human Nature

  "Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Blessing, Democratic Socialism

  "'Everybody in the World Except US Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote and Elect the American Government' - Leading Intellectual Slavoj Žižek". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 11, 2008.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Patriotism, Popularity, Aim

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Weed, Flower, Eye

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

  Leonard Maltin

  Nbc, Anchors, Comic

  4 Copy quote

• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  Jackie Collins

  Real, Writing, Character

  Jackie Collins (2014). “The Lucky Santangelo Cookbook”, p.2, St. Martin's Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

  Todd Solondz

  Hate, Dark, People

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Success, Trying, Mosaics

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.

  Judy Chicago

  Males, Done, Professors

  6 Copy quote

• We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Im Sorry, Being Yourself, Work

  6 Copy quote

• Most people can't handle a structureless life.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Routine, Handle

  9 Copy quote

• Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

  Dana Carvey

  Turtles, Clubs, Enough

  "The Master of Disguise". www.imdb.com. 2002.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source