Disguised Quotes

210 quotes by 186 authors

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little… — Jane Austen
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. — Ambrose Bierce
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. — James Agee
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of… — Sri Chinmoy
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention… — Northrop Frye
When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is… — Gerry Spence
You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.'… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For… — J. D. Sedding
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,… — Leo Tolstoy
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised… — Thomas de Quincey
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. — Francis Picabia
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Laozi
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most. — Robert Browning
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. — Bertrand Russell
Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become… — Eckhart Tolle
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations… — Arnold J. Mandell
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles

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