quotes about Disguise
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
-- Antony Sher -
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
-- Arthur EricksonSource : "Criminal Minds: Persuasion". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2014.
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No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
-- Arthur Schnitzler -
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I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.
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Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.
-- Bruno SchulzSource : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
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Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
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Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.
-- Daphne MerkinSource : Daphne Merkin (2014). “The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags”, p.104, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
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Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
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Enemies were teachers in disguise.
-- Eiji YoshikawaSource : Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket
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Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
-- Emily Post -
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Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
-- George Whitman -
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
-- Gustav Mahler -
Economics is really politics in disguise.
-- Hazel Henderson -
Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
-- Horace -
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Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn’t know how to read the signs.
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The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.
-- Jim Butcher -
To say what your disguise is would be foolish.
-- John McAfee -
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There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism
-- Jonathan MayhewSource : Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55
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Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
-- Kim Harrison -
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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
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Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.
-- Leigh Hunt -
It disguises it’s thoughts as your thoughts, it’s feelings with your feelings, you think it’s you.
-- Leonard Jacobson -
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The best live among us in disguise.
-- Louis DudekSource : Louis Dudek, Aileen Collins (1988). “In defence of art: critical essays & reviews”, Quarry Pr
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Language disguises thought.
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.8, Clube de Autores
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
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Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
-- Michael Tilson Thomas -
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Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.
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Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
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Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise.
-- Randy GageSource : Randy Gage (2001). “How to build a multi-level money machine: the science of network marketing”, p.14, Internet Profit Kit
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Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.
-- Robert BreaultSource : Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.10, Shambhala Publications
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I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.
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Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.
-- Spider Robinson -
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Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,
-- T Bone BurnettSource : Song: Hollywood Mecca of the Movies, Album: The True False Identity
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Life without knowledge is death in disguise.
-- Talib KweliSource : Song: K.o.s
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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise
-- Young JeezySource : Song: I Luv It, Album: The Inspiration, 2006
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I would say that we like to disguise our heartbreaks with happier melodies.
-- Aino JawoSource : "Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on their new album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.
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The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.
-- Connie ZweigSource : Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.40, Wellspring/Ballantine
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I have always dressed somewhat well - not because I work at GQ - but because my wife is amazing at finding clothes that disguise my waistline.
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Trump is a hybrid phenomenon as I see it. He is somewhat like UKIP and Le Pen with his right-wing populism that espouses some fascist overtones, but he's also partly just the old neoliberalism in disguise, especially if we look at some of the people he appointed to his cabinet.
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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
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This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.
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In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.
-- Sue JohnsonSource : Sue Johnson, Kenneth Sanderfer (2016). “Created for Connection: The "Hold Me Tight" Guide for Christian Couples”, p.83, Hachette UK
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I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.
-- U-GodSource : Source: mvremix.com
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Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.
-- William MarchSource : William March, William T. Going, Richard Brough (2011). “99 Fables”, p.20, University of Alabama Press