Disguise Quotes

“Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors...
Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat...
What then was music created for?
Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves?
I think I know.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.”
― Robert Brault

“The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am looking for the one I can’t fool.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.”
― Lemony Snicket

“So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said.
“Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?”
“I thought they might be part of your disguise.”
“My disguise?”
“Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?”
― Lisa Kleypas, Married by Morning

“He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer

“If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage.”
― William Beckford, The Episodes of Vathek

“Lila had discovered that the hardest part of her charade was pretending that everything was old hat when it was all so new, being forced to feign the kind of nonchalance that only comes from a lifetime of knowing and taking for granted. Lila was a quick study, and she knew how to keep up a front; but behind the mask of disinterest, she took in everything. She was a sponge, soaking up the words and customs, training herself to see something once and be able to pretend she’d seen it a dozen—a hundred—times before.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Our friend Tuesday," said the President in a deep voice at once of quietude and volume, "our friend Tuesday doesn't seem to grasp the idea. He dresses up like a gentleman, but he seems to be too great a soul to behave like one. He insists on the ways of the stage conspirator. Now if a gentleman goes about London in a top hat and a frock-coat, no one need know that he is an anarchist. But if a gentleman puts on a top hat and a frock-coat, and then goes about on his hands and knees — well, he may attract attention. That's what Brother Gogol does. He goes about on his hands and knees with such inexhaustible diplomacy, that by this time he finds it quite difficult to walk upright."
"I am not good at goncealment," said Gogol sulkily, with a thick foreign accent; "I am not ashamed of the cause."
"Yes you are, my boy, and so is the cause of you," said the President good-naturedly. "You hide as much as anybody; but you can't do it, you see, you're such an ass! You try to combine two inconsistent methods. When a householder finds a man under his bed, he will probably pause to note the circumstance. But if he finds a man under his bed in a top hat, you will agree with me, my dear Tuesday, that he is not likely ever to forget it. Now when you were found under Admiral Biffin's bed—"
"I am not good at deception," said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.
"Right, my boy, right," said the President with a ponderous heartiness, "you aren't good at anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“It's a universal instinct of the human species, isn't it, that desire to dress up in some sort of disguise?" said Frank.

"I must be very inhuman then," said Maxim.

"It's natural, I suppose," said Colonel Julyan, "for all of us to wish to look different. We are all children in some ways.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Moustaches were terribly itchy things--at least when one had only glued the hairs in place instead of growing them oneself. No, he'd tried growing one once too, and his opinion held. They were itchy. Full stop.”
― Roseanna M. White, A Noble Scheme

“When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode; when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“Trust’ in anything other than God is nothing more than a gamble in disguise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we were lucky, none of them would realise that Rhys's lapdog was actually a bloodhound.

And it was a very, very good disguise.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I would not get internet from a wireless company, they give you a Wi-Fi hot-spot that is a cellphone in disguise. It is like someone making a cellphone call 24 hours a day! Your home will be filled with cell phone radiation. It is like a mini cell phone tower within the home.”
― Steven Magee

“Women are always under attack; and the majority of those women are in lala land, snoring, ”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Women are always under attack; and the majority of those women are in lala land, snoring,... On the contrary, the boys are working overtime, making sure that they're winning the race no matter what, even if they have to disguise themselves as females.

It's always been a power struggle, and putting the female gender as second in importance. And the boys finally found a clever strategy to advance their gender while having females cheer for them from the sidelinWho promotes female impersonation the most? Female celebrities. Who protects the rights of female impersonators the most? Female politicians and leaders.

The boys hired the best empowered females in the world to vouch for them. They got them to fight ...not for other females but for the boys disguised as females. Now, that's chess.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Women are always under attack; and the majority of those women are in lala land, snoring,... On the contrary, the boys are working overtime, making sure that they're winning the race no matter what, even if they have to disguise themselves as females.

It's always been a power struggle, and putting the female gender as second in importance. And the boys finally found a clever strategy to advance their gender while having females cheer for them from the sidelines.

Who promotes female impersonation the most? Female celebrities. Who protects the rights of female impersonators the most? Female politicians and leaders.

The boys hired the best empowered females in the world to vouch for them. They got them to fight ...not for other females but for the boys disguised as females. Now, that's chess.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Who promotes female impersonation the most? Female celebrities. Who protects the rights of female impersonators the most? Female politicians and leaders.

The boys hired the best empowered females in the world to vouch for them. They got them to fight ...not for other females but for the boys disguised as females. Now, that's chess.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The best you can get in any religion, is organized loved. Organized live is hate in disguise.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“The best you can get in any religion, is organized loved. Organized love is hate in disguise.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“The best you can get in any religion is organized love. Organized love is hate in disguise.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“the more I impersonated Cristóbal, the more it affected my psyche. I almost took offense at Angélica’s comment; the way she trivialized men and bundled them all together as if they were one entity. Living as a man was having strange effects on me. For one, it was forcing me to see them as individuals. Cristóbal and Martin, for example, were different in so many ways I could no longer subscribe to the “all men are the same” mentality.”
― Lorena Hughes, The Spanish Daughter

“He doesn’t look away. Unease slithers in my gut as he takes one step closer. Then another. His silhouette becomes clearer, and he certainly looks like the Lord of the Wild Hunt. But Drystan would never have held the eye contact this long. He hates looking at me.”
― Marie Mistry, Across an Endless Sea

“До ще більшої плутанини призвело те, що у XVIII столітті у вжиток увійшов прикметник «российский» — як похідний від слова «Россия», яка на той час була імперією. «Российский» інколи вживався як синонім слова «русский» в офіційних промовах, однак Єкатєріна II заохочувала до його вживання стосовно неросійських народів імперії. Отже, слово «русский» стосувалося росіян, тоді як «российский» — як росіян, так і інших підданих імперії, — звідси й назва «Российская империя» або, у пострадянський період, «Российская Федерация». У сучасній російській мові термін «российский», як і раніше, стосується росіян, а також тих народів Російської Федерації, які не є росіянами, тоді як термін «русский» — лише росіян. Однак обидва слова перекладаються англійською мовою як «Russian». Оскільки ці слова мають однакове походження, може здаватися, що термін «российский» позначає ніби «неповних» росіян; росіян у процесі становлення; осіб, які в певний природний спосіб повʼязані з Росією. Колоніальна природа імперії маскується в такий спосіб лінгвістичною маніпуляцією.”
― Ewa M. Thompson, Трубадури імперії: Російська література і колоніалізм