Quotes
Quotes about Disguise
Eas'd the putting off
These troublesome disguises which we wear.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Unbless'd thy hand, if in this low disguise
Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies.
"Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught."
The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.
Those true eyes
Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise
The sweet soul shining through them.
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),
Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;
Who loving novels, full of affectation,
Receive the manners of each other nation.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Once upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Harm seek. Harm find.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise; His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, His glory still gleams in their eyes; Those truants from home and from Heaven They have made me more manly and mild; And I know now how Jesus could liken The kingdom of God to a child.
Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others. If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.
Failure is opportunity in disguise.
Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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 not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
