Disguise Quotes - Page 2

• You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

  Allan Dwan

  Light, Shadow, Light And Shadow

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• Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

  John Locke

  Endless Time, People, Trying

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• Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters, in the heart of everyone she met, and especially in the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low. Jesus was in disguise in each one of them. Jesus was behind the foundation of her order. Jesus was behind all that she did.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Catholic, Human Nature

  "Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

  Gore Vidal

  Communication, Cities, People

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Most people can't handle a structureless life.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Routine, Handle

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• I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

  Alan Cumming

  Different

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• There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

  Amy Lee

  Christian, Spiritual, Ideas

  "More Goth than gospel" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2003.

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• Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

  Douglas Coupland

  People, Monkeys, Paws

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• The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
  And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

  Mark Akenside

  Lying, Men, Rags

  Mark Akenside (1808). “The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside ...: Collated with the Best Editions”

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• The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

  Erica Jong

  Cat, Stones, Ghost

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• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Literature, Moral

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mom, Real, Hypnosis

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• Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

  Horace Mann

  Adversity, Evil, Mercy

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• Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Opportunity, Sometimes

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.147, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Stress, Christ

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• There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Nature, Retirement, Kindness

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

  Thomas More

  Inspirational, Matter, Lawyer

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• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

  George Santayana

  Love, Beauty, Wisdom

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

  Pam Gems

  Philosophy, War, Males

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• What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Blessing, Democratic Socialism

  "'Everybody in the World Except US Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote and Elect the American Government' - Leading Intellectual Slavoj Žižek". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 11, 2008.

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• There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Patriotism, Popularity, Aim

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55

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• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  Jackie Collins

  Real, Writing, Character

  Jackie Collins (2014). “The Lucky Santangelo Cookbook”, p.2, St. Martin's Press

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• Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Race, People

  "Portraits from Memory and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell (p. 198), 1956.

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• With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.

  Judy Chicago

  Males, Done, Professors

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