Disguise Quotes - Page 20

• To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Kings, Feelings, Deception

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• He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

  Charlie Daniels

  Friendship, Dumb, Looks

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• If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

  Arthur Helps

  Book, Reading, People

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

  Vincent Cassel

  Kids, Dressing Up, Ideas

  "France's most wanted". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• 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.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Drawing, Scary

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• So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

  Bruce Springsteen

  Relationship, Baby, Eye

  Song: Brilliant Disguise, Album: Tunnel Of Love, 1987

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• Hitler's brothers are on the rise, they're wearing everyday disguises.

  Paula Cole

  Brother, Reality, Everyday

  Song: Hitler's Brothers, Album: Harbinger

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• Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

  Waylon Jennings

  Perfect, Trying, This Is Me

  Song: Nobody Knows

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• Scars are wisdom in disguise.

  Napoleon Hill

  Scar

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• I'd already rehearsed it [ Don't Kill It script ] for the first time it was supposed to happen and the second time. That was a blessing in disguise because the character [Jebediah Woodley] grew a little bit in me.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Character, Blessing, Littles

  Source: dailydead.com

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• He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Clever, Learning, Men

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• Everyone has their own struggles, but I never question the road I'm on. I'm a firm believer in the notion that "everything happens for a reason," so even if sometimes you think you're facing a problem, really it's just a blessing in disguise.

  Nikki Yanofsky

  Struggle, Thinking, Blessing

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

  Questlove

  Real, People, Important

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• However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

  William Golding

  Biographies, Novel

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• [Frida Farell] also wanted the film to serve as a cautionary tale for young women - to say, "Be careful when an attractive man asks you to go to a casting or a photo shoot, because it might be a demon in disguise."

  Rudolf Buitendach

  Men, Might, Casting

  Source: variety.com

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• Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a very fervent kind of civil rights art course, not altogether art history. It wasn't altogether theory. She called it an action course.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Teaching, Rights

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I think we need leadership that can gently and with affection remind us of what we Americans mostly agree upon: civility, kindness, tolerance, humour, et cetera. The current Trump administration seems to thrive on trying to enforce a very odd, fearful agenda, that it tries to disguise in a false garment of fondness for the working-class - despite the fact that its policies seem designed to continue the decades-long habit of marginalizing that group.

  George Saunders

  Kindness, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Order, Morality, Separation

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• I got to play a funny part [in the The Master Of Disguise]. There was one thing my character did that involved flatulence and laughing at the same time - that was in the script - and that was basically what sold me on it. I really thought, "This can't help but be funny." And when I saw the film, I was proud that I'd had those moments.

  Brent Spiner

  Character, Play, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Dana Carvey is hilarious. He's a really, really funny, talented guy. You know, I can't think of anything I've ever done that I regret doing, and I certainly don't regret doing Master Of Disguise, because I got to hang around Dana.

  Brent Spiner

  Regret, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

  Vernon Howard

  Crowds, Costumes, Carnivals

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• We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

  Annie Proulx

  Growing Up, Differences, Strange

  Annie Proulx (1996). “The Shipping news”

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• They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead.

  Jean Genet

  Grief, Book, Dust

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people - be like the fly on the wall. Even if it's two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don't know what it's like to fit in an everyday life situation.

  Michael Jackson

  Wall, Kids, Swings

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• Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

  John Webster

  Wise, Witty, Lust

  John Webster (1989). “The Duchess of Malfi”

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