Disguise Quotes · Page 8

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

— Talib Kweli

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

— Alexander Pope

BEWARE haters disguise themselves as friends

— @2much4you2touch

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,

— T Bone Burnett

Are all men in disguise except those crying?

— Dannie Abse

Economics is really politics in disguise.

— Hazel Henderson

Scars are wisdom in disguise.

— Napoleon Hill

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

— William Penn

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

— Waylon Jennings

“Opportunity to help others is the opportunity to help yourself in disguise.”

— Mayur Ramgir

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

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

— Horace

“Failure is often nothing more than good luck in disguise:”

— Vishen Lakhiani

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

— Aino Jawo

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

— James Russell Lowell

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

— Rupert Grint

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

— Frederick Salomon Perls

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to…

— Oscar Wilde

When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as…

— Troy Deeney

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is…

— Pam Gems

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

— Bernard-Henri Levy

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

— Rabindranath Tagore

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

— P. J. Plauger

Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely…

— Irvin D. Yalom

To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that…

— Oswald Spengler

The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I…

— Vincent Cassel

For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected…

— Anonymous

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her…

— Arthur Helps

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living…

— Marcel Proust

Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without…

— Karl Rahner

Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet…

— John Gay

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected…

— Robertson Davies

I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If…

— Dennis Lindley

I find I'm most challenged by things I really care about, because I really want to do them well. It causes quite…

— Jeff Bridges

From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From…

— Howard Bloom

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft…

— Samuel Johnson

At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or…

— Anonymous

Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level…

— Dean Ornish