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

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• 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

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  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

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

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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".

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• Hills are speedwork in disguise.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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

  V. S. Pritchett

  Personality, Youth, Periods

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• You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

  Allan Dwan

  Light, Shadow, Light And Shadow

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

  Dana Carvey

  Turtles, Clubs, Enough

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

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• Most people can't handle a structureless life.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Routine, Handle

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• Naked is the best disguise.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Naked

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• Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Monkeys, Paws

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• There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

  Amy Lee

  Christian, Spiritual, Ideas

  "More Goth than gospel" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2003.

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• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Literature, Moral

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The presidents poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesnt disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

  Brit Hume

  Fun, Mass Destruction, People

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• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Cat, Stones, Ghost

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• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Duplicity, Dishonesty

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

  Arthur Erickson

  Criminal Mind, Emptiness, Illusion

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

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• Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Race, People

  "Portraits from Memory and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.

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• Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Opportunity, Sometimes

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.147, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

  Diane Lane

  Motivation, Blessing, Challenges

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• 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

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