What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to… — Oscar Wilde 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
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. — Charles Lamb 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
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
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
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“For the last three days I've seen you at dawn,” he said against Cat's hair, "stealing down your stairs like a shadow.… — Elizabeth Lowell Copy Share Image
“And who shall you be once you don your grand disguise?" "La luna," she said with a smile. "Then I shall be… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“He returned to the fire and sat down. He had seen through my disguise and didn’t want to reveal my identity. The… — Karl May Copy Share Image
I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise.… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... — Gore Vidal 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
“I’m in disguise. I’m disguised as myself, and I’m a master of disguise, so that’s why you couldn’t tell I was in… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Love & life isn't what its suppose to be & thats because Eve ate the fruit from the tree, now Love is… — Lorenzo Hart Copy Share Image
The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise. — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In my pictures, you never know, that’s the mystery. It’s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We've been walking down this road simetime, And you love, and you love me good, no lie But there is something behind… — Tonirose Copy Share Image
My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons,… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work. — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
You've been hurt before, I can see it in your eyes. You try to smile it away, some things you can't disguise. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
“I understand more than most the need to become another. To bury the past along with who you were, to create a… — Lori Austin Copy Share Image
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image