Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Never wear a hat and sunglasses at the same time, because it looks like you're wearing a disguise.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

If you have a vast organization, parade it before the enemy, openly show your power. If your organization is small, do what Gideon did: conceal the members in the dark but raise a clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more that it does. If your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have

I'm pretty good at going incognito.

If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

I always treat camo as a solid.

I was able to hide a lot behind 'Walton,' and found that to be quite useful.

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

I did what I could to keep up the ruse. I was travelling quite a bit, so any opportunity I could, I would travel through Atlanta and stay a day or so. I'd make sure I was 'seen' in some of Atlanta's restaurants. And I dyed my hair the whole time, every two weeks, to keep the haircut.

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.

I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.