Disguise Quotes

Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.

You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

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.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

In 'Hope Never Dies', Biden attempts to disguise himself with a beach look, hoping that the incongruity of it will allow him to snoop around Wilmington without being recognized. Obama, on the other hand, knows the best way to keep a low profile is to just be himself.

I'm clearly not an international man of mystery.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception.

There's no hiding place for someone of my size.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Get thee glass eyes ;, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.