Top 100 Disguised Quotes
#2. Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride,
Howe'er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt
For any living thing, hath faculties
Which he has never used; that thought with him
Is in its infancy ...
William Wordsworth
#3. Sacred blessings and divine opportunities appear in your life disguised as unforeseen changes and challenging circumstances.
Miya Yamanouchi
#4. Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.
Isobelle Carmody
#5. As the ample Hedda, who disguised her ampleness behind a billow of yellow summer dress, told it, her life up 'til she hoisted this very bloody mary in her hand was a convoluted tale of bubbly love gone flat, fine talents unnoticed and similarly woeful bullshit.
Daniel Woodrell
#6. Berdyaev remarks that "no one ever proposes evil ends: evil is always disguised as good, and detracts from the good."[49] Yet the resort to violence is precisely where evil seeps in. Besides,
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
#7. Satan is the master of the ultimate double-talk and sophistry. He calls evil good and continues to confuse men with his cleverly disguised untruths.
Billy Graham
#8. Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.
Ludwig Von Mises
#9. I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude,
Robert Downey Jr.
#10. You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.
Dave Barry
#11. Fiction is but truth.. tweaked or disguised.
Syed Arshad
#12. In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.
Niall Ferguson
#14. Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
Herbert Read
#15. In those hours he is awake and prowling through the building, he sometimes feels he is a demon who has disguised himself as a human, and only at night is it safe to shed the costume he must wear by daylight, and indulge his true nature.
Hanya Yanagihara
#16. They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.
Czeslaw Milosz
#17. Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
#18. ... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
#19. There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#20. False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.
Dov Davidoff
#21. Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.
Susan Sontag
#22. God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, "You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen."
Hafez
#23. Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
Nikola Tesla
#24. Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
Ernest Dimnet
#25. The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.
Alexandre Dumas
#26. This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.
Joe Rogan
#28. Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).
Seth Godin
#29. She was the angel. My guardian angel disguised as the fucking grim reaper.
Mary Martel
#30. If the church is the body of Christ [who was disguised in servant form], why would we think the world would be able to pick us out of a crowd of other well-meaning organizations?
Mark Galli
#31. Keeping your eyes on the bull's eye isn't always easy when its secret weapon is disguised as love.
C.C. Wyatt
#32. Lust arrives as an angel disguised as love, but it's still lust, not love.
Scarlet Risque
#33. 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.
Randolph Bourne
#34. Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.
Robert Lane Greene
#35. It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Now it was unfolding, like a flower coming into bloom, radiant with possibility.
Lois Lowry
#36. We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.
A. Theodore Tuttle
#37. Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.
George Gissing
#38. It was better to be angry than to be hurt; maybe even better than being loved and held by him, because maybe anger was what she'd been feeling toward him all along, anger disguised as wanting.
Jonathan Franzen
#39. People seldom recognize opportunity for it comes disguised as hard work.
K. Balachander
#40. Simon called you 'Machiavelli disguised as a debutante.'" "Gosh," I said, not sure whether to feel flattered or insulted.
Michelle Cooper
#41. The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.
John Ross Macduff
#42. In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Richard LaGravenese
#43. In Jewish folk music, despair is disguised as the dance. And so, truth's disguise was irony.
Julian Barnes
#44. And also don't forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.
Clifford Irving
#45. Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
#46. Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.
J.K. Rowling
#47. I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities..the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.
Cory Booker
#48. Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.
Eduardo Galeano
#49. Was that some kind of romantic declaration, disguised as a filthy pirate sex offer?
Ruthie Knox
#50. We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.
Lee Iacocca
#51. Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#52. Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas's comrade as they fought their way out of burning Troy disguised in Greek armor; which may be loosely translated: It won't matter to the enemy whether you beat him by guile or by valor.
Thaddeus Holt
#54. Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
#55. You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.
Sri Chinmoy
#56. Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.
Tiki Barber
#57. Prayer reaches into the supernatural with seeds of faith that grow into natural occurrences disguised as coincidences, but we know better.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#58. To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,
they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#60. Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him.
Sri Chinmoy
#61. Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.
John Climacus
#62. Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them ... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#63. Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Francis Picabia
#64. Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.
Wislawa Szymborska
#65. The disease of intolerance is not communicated only in religious groups. I've seen it infect racial groups, economic groups and even whole nations (where it is often cleverly disguised as patriotism). Intolerance always fences people out. It creates one group we call US. And the rest we call THEM.
Steve Goodier
#66. When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy, the system is beyond corrupt.
Suzy Kassem
#67. Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
John Sladek
#68. Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
Pat Conroy
#69. It's chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably ... freakin' Legend. Anyone who actually enjoys Ladyhawke is a bona fide USDA-choice pussy!
Ernest Cline
#70. He'd sometimes thought that the War College was really a thinly disguised royal subsidy to the local tavern industry.
Django Wexler
#71. A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the true answer to the wonder of being. The itch for sensation, even though disguised in the mask of Boheme, is a sure indication of a bourgeois mind and a deadened sense of wonder.
Josef Pieper
#72. Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me.
J.D. Salinger
#74. Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.
David Gemmell
#75. The look in the eyes is something that can be disguised, unless you have seen the same journey
S. Burke
#77. Persistence is a writer's best friend disguised as a bully.
A.M. McKnight
#78. On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#79. The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
Herbert V. Prochnow
#80. It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
David Leavitt
#81. Satan's method has often been to imitate God.
Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.
Billy Graham
#82. A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. Protect your garden. Some come as weeds disguised as flowers.
Erica Alex
#84. If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab
D.H. Lawrence
#85. The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.
Joseph Addison
#86. Whenever there is love beyond boundaries ...
Whenever trust flows deeper than oceans ...
Nevertheless, a Trial is born ...
You pass that trial, sacred you shall be ... if you don't, your are immortal !!!!
M.W.Latif
#87. 'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.
Matt Groening
#88. The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
Joseph Conrad
#89. Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as
and often even believed to be
benevolence.
Michael J. Sullivan
#90. Do not think like a human.
You have the ability within you to create anything you wish.
Truth is, you are all highly powerful entities walking this planet, disguised as simple biological beings & the disguise fools everyone -- even yourself.
Bashar
#91. Did you know, the worst kind of demon is that which is disguised as a human".
Louise Gann
#92. Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.
Arnold J. Mandell
#93. I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.
Tom Hiddleston
#94. Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
Bertrand Russell
#95. Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
Terry Tempest Williams
#96. Yes," Marcus said. "The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.
Randy Alcorn
#97. Perfect." I open the ornithopter door. "We've rendered Dona mostly blind and partially disguised her as an old woman for the sake of a bloody walk in a public park.
Elizabeth May
#98. My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.
Glenn Danzig
#99. There were those who asserted that sons always became, to some degree or other, disguised variants of their fathers, that the experience of breaking out was never more than an illusion; you returned; the gravity of blood was not only stronger than your willpower, it was your willpower.
Jo Nesbo
#100. My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.
Miranda Hart
