Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The best part about being in ladies disguise is that women forget I am actually a man! — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This business of friendship was a curious thing, almost as difficult to learn as the busuness of acting. Sometimes you were expected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True… — John Newton Copy Share Image
A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Ohmygod," Jade whispered, panicked. She grabbed my arm and yanked, almost knocking me off balance. "Something moved in those bushes." I shoved… — Jus Accardo Copy Share Image
A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Our friend Tuesday," said the President in a deep voice at once of quietude and volume, "our friend Tuesday doesn't seem to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They've learned to disguise themselves as clouds now…but they've been doing that... — Bobby Ray Copy Share Image
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
