Top 52 Disguising Quotes
#1. Look up at the miracle of the falling snow, - the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.
John Burroughs
#2. They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.
Guy De Rothschild
#3. He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every listener feel he had done his best to master every aspect of this question, who has been driven by logic to arrive at certain conclusions, and who is disguising from us no argument on either side.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#4. I got something to tell you, said Keisha Blake, disguising her voice with her voice.
Zadie Smith
#5. We are all specialised forms of survivor. We lack what we fundamentally need and forge ahead regardless, hurriedly hiding our wounds, disguising our ineptitude, bluffing our way through our weaknesses.
Michel Faber
#6. Everyone in this world is nuts, the difference is some of them just really good at disguising it.
Rea Lidde
#7. Alphole heroes are just domineering assholes disguising themselves as alpha males. Real alpha males don't need to be assholes.
Sarah Wendell
#8. We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.
Steven Erikson
#9. There was courage in no disguising the animal you happened to be.
J.K. Rowling
#10. The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.
Mason Cooley
#11. True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Emile M. Cioran
#12. I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#13. Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.
Michel De Montaigne
#14. On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.
Mindy Kaling
#15. Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey
even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.
John Vaillant
#16. Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
Osbert Sitwell
#17. Al Qaeda is not a nation-state and it has not signed the Geneva Conventions. It shows no desire to obey the laws of war; if anything it directly violates them by disguising themselves as civilians and attacking purely civilian targets to cause massive casualties.
John Yoo
#18. I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to be a little more embarrassed.
Hugh Dancy
#19. Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.
A. J. Burnett
#20. The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.
Paul Krugman
#21. The facts in this story are true insofar as any memory is ever truthful, but I have made every effort to protect friends and students, baptizing them with new names and disguising them perhaps even from themselves, changing and interchanging facets of their lives so that their secrets are safe.
Azar Nafisi
#22. A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.
Jackie French
#23. A hobby is labor disguising itself as leisure. It is extremely destructive to the boundaries of private life.
Bauvard
#24. Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#25. Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
Diane Wakoski
#27. Salvage what you can so you don't end up like me; bitter and hateful but disguising it with a smile, and then hide it away under the cover of wild nights and very early mornings.
J.C. Wickhart
#28. It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#29. There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
Voltaire
#30. Too much of my life feels like this already- trying to recycle something old into something new and better, disguising someone else's trash as some fresh, shiny thing.
Jennifer Niven
#31. Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.
George Orwell
#32. Nkechi never tried to hide her bottom. She was proud of it. Fascinating to me. Irish girls' lives were a constant quest for bottom-disguising or bottom-reducing clothing tactics. We can learn much from other cultures.
Marian Keyes
#33. 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
#35. Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.
Rebecca Solnit
#36. When Jesus came in the form of a servant, he was not disguising who God is. He was revealing who God is.
John Ortberg
#37. Maybe." I shrug. "But what I meant was, can't you use the makeup to cover it?"
Miles rolls his eyes and scowls. "Oh, so I can sport a huge flesh-colored beacon instead? Would you look at this thing? There's no disguising it. It's got it's own DNA! It's casting shadows!
Alyson Noel
#38. There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.
Ben Aaronovitch
#39. She was good at that, repressing her feelings, disguising them as something else. Sometimes she thought it was the only thing she was good at.
Nicole Ciacchella
#40. Already d'Anton did not believe this. He recognized it as a disclaimer that Camille would issue from time to time in the hope of disguising the fact that he was an inveterate hell-raiser.
Hilary Mantel
#41. Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.
Richard Rohr
#42. I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.
Henry Miller
#43. Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.
Deepak Chopra
#44. Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.
John Green
#45. Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.
Michel De Montaigne
#46. The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.
Richard Rohr
#47. Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
Charles R. Swindoll
#48. George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.
Brad Sherman
#49. If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#50. Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse - disguising, concealing, hiding, covering all that lies below the burning earth.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
#51. Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.
Paulo Freire
#52. Pictures rarely told the truth. They were like gold lacquer over Styrofoam, making things seem shiny and bright, disguising the fragility beneath. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it still wasn't worth a whole hell of a lot.
Amy Harmon
