Disguise Quotes - Page 8

• The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Wise, Work, Intelligent

  27 Copy quote

• Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture

  M. Scott Peck

  Christian, Evil People, Church

  M. Scott Peck (1983). “People of the Lie”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

  51 Copy quote

  Show source

• A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

  Diane Setterfield

  Stories, Cases, Significance

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Miscarriage, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.259

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Needs, Born

  5 Copy quote

• Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Blessing, Opportunity

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?” “I thought they might be part of your disguise.” “My disguise?” “Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mean, Spy, Identity

  4 Copy quote

• There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.

  Edmund White

  Children, Men, Imagination

  7 Copy quote

• Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

  Aesop

  Silly, Clothes, May

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing after yourself, craftily observing your own tracks--in a circle, of course. This sham diving into the stream of life while all the time you sat angling after yourself, fishing yourself up in one curious disguise or another! If he could only be overwhelmed by something--life, love, passion--so that he could no longer shape it into poems, but had to let it shape him!

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Dream, Love Life, Passion

  13 Copy quote

• I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

  Margaret Atwood

  Want, Complicated, Heathcliff

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Heart, Mean

  34 Copy quote

• A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.

  Clarence Thomas

  Courage, Truth, Justice

  13 Copy quote

• Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands who one is, one can disguise oneself any way one wants. As soon as one has found one's look, one's shape, one does not need to alter it too much, in fact I would say that one should not change it.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Men, Effort, Intellectual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

  Sean O Faolain

  Earth, Felt

  11 Copy quote

• I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Children, Years

  5 Copy quote

• The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.

  Ayn Rand

  Russia, Roots, Anxiety

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.71, Penguin

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.

  Georges Bernanos

  Thinking, Lust, Faces

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.124, Da Capo Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

  Homer

  Men, Cities, Kind

  4 Copy quote

• I would say that we like to disguise our heartbreaks with happier melodies.

  Aino Jawo

  Melody

  "Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on their new album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

  Vanna Bonta

  News, Disease, Information

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, September 1, 1989.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Mean, Loss

  10 Copy quote

• He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Friendship, Air, Names

  5 Copy quote

• The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Fashion, Spring, Wings

  94 Copy quote

• It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

  Werner Herzog

  Mean, Documentaries, Film

  "A Documentary is Just a Feature Film In Disguise: An Interview with Werner Herzog". Interview with Ben Simington, mubi.com. December 12, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source