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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• The best live among us in disguise.

  Louis Dudek

  Louis Dudek, Aileen Collins (1988). “In defence of art: critical essays & reviews”, Quarry Pr

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• After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Thinking, Self

  "Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for: Selected Spiritual Writings".

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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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• A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

  Aesop

  Life, Persons, Despite

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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

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• That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.

  Jim Carrey

  Real, War, Lying

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

  Allan Dwan

  Light, Shadow, Light And Shadow

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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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• We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

  William Hazlitt

  Quality, Use, Good Intentions

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.29

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

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Men, Speech, Parole

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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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• What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fake People, Humor

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• Naked is the best disguise.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Naked

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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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• Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Stress, Christ

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

  Diane Lane

  Motivation, Blessing, Challenges

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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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• 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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• Hills are speedwork in disguise.

  Frank Shorter

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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