Best Disguise Quotes

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

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate–how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

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.

And I’ll dance with you in Vienna, I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the Nain Jaune, the phrase, Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

The best live among us in disguise.

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

It disguises it’s thoughts as your thoughts, it’s feelings with your feelings, you think it’s you.

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

Pawns are really queens in disguise.

The concept of a ‘just’ or ‘fair’ price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

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

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

A person’s true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

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

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed

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

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

I wouldn’t write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it’s a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

Disguise is central to God’s way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. … God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.

Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

Anger is always – always – fear in disguise.