Top 100 Guise Quotes
#1. Maybe I'm weak for music men. Maybe I'm weak, period. But I couldn't deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#2. I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.
Steven Millhauser
#3. What if there is a carefully shielded alliance with a clear aim to break Washington? An alliance that has relentlessly been carrying out that plan for decades, under the guise of something completely different?
Jeff Nesbit
#4. Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative principle, but do not insist on recognition. ("Absolute Evil")
Julian Hawthorne
#5. What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.
Learned Hand
#6. I think ... that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals ...
Corliss Lamont
#7. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. The options are almost limitless for creating "busyness":
Timothy Ferriss
#8. There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it's never enough.
Graham Swift
#9. 'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for.
Nic Pizzolatto
#10. I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman ... come in the guise of a comic ... to heal perception by using ... 'jokes' ...
Bill Hicks
#11. The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
Agatha Christie
#12. When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.
Pankaj Mishra
#13. I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations.
Peter Hook
#14. In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
Gautama Buddha
#15. Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology.
Jason Beghe
#16. In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world.
Girdhar Joshi
#17. It has been brought to my attention that I may be a verbivore. I consumptor of words, that I subsequently spew forth with considerable consternation.
A Volley of verbs that are quite vexing has taken form, perhaps under the guise of consonants most foul!! Where have you wandered faithful vowels?
Neil Leckman
#18. We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.
Margaret Thatcher
#19. I'd practically groped her under the guise of helping her get out a stain, but still, she looked like she found me about as appealing as second-hand underpants.
L. H. Cosway
#20. I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
Quentin Tarantino
#21. The Federal Reserve System is a legal private monopoly of the money supply operated for the benefit of the few under the guise of protecting and promoting the public interest.
Anonymous
#22. Middle-class kids get to play, develop their thinking ability. Poor kids are much more likely to get regimentation under the guise of socialization. On top of it, we have huge segregation in early childhood programs. I don't see these patterns changing anytime soon, and that's a big obstacle.
Pedro Noguera
#23. If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?
William H Gass
#24. There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
Thomas Jefferson
#25. Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
A.W. Tozer
#26. I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Kate Chopin
#27. I've made a habit of falling in love with cities I've never been to
And every once in a while I get the opportunity to be reckless
Under the guise that I'm only young once and stupidity is a state
I must learn the hard way
Marie Gibson
#28. The face, the whole body, the way you moved in it, just a guise. You put it on, you put it off again. What was underneath belonged to you, just you, as long as you kept it hidden.
Kelly Link
#29. I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
Michel De Montaigne
#30. Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke
#31. There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
Raymond Loewy
#32. The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
#33. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
Henry Miller
#34. A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore De Balzac
#35. Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom
Edward Sapir
#36. I started the film [Hostel Part II]with the girls in an art class and there's a nude male model. People think that women are objectified, well here you go! Here's a man being objectivized but now it's under the guise of art.
Eli Roth
#37. Faith is a personal accord between a lone soul and that in which it chooses to believe. In any other guise it is nothing more than a thin coat of sacred paint slapped over politics and the secular lust for power.
Steven Erikson
#38. How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!
Susan Sontag
#39. The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.
Max Frisch
#40. If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.
John Carroll
#41. An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise.
Anne Rice
#42. I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
#43. Well, if it's for a paper, then my honest answer is that I think sororities are bad. I think they're terrible, actually. I think they make girls feel awful about themselves under the guise of sisterhood.
Kimberly McCreight
#44. Without having navigated waters shallow enough for us to see bottom, we'll be easy prey to mystifiers who want to sell us radical metaphysical fantasies in the guise of science.
Lee Smolin
#45. Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.
Mother Teresa
#47. One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British foreign policy, namely military intervention.
Martin Jacques
#48. All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.
William James
#49. We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies.
Margaret George
#50. There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm
#51. Violence as a way of gaining power ... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security ...
Alfred Adler
#52. We, as citizens of a supposedly free country, should not permit our government to restrict any information that protects criminal activity under the guise of National Security.
Cathy O'Brien
#53. There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
Henry Miller
#54. Second. - The Christian is to walk singularly, not after the world's guise, Rom. 12:2. We are commanded not to be conformed to this world, that is, not to accommodate ourselves to the corrupt customs of the world.
William Gurnall
#55. There's beauty all around our paths,
If but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things,
And through their lowly guise.
Felicia Hemans
#56. Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
Juvenal
#57. I have a mind myself and recognize
Mind when I meet with it in any guise.
Robert Frost
#58. If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.
Richard B. Garnett
#59. Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
Paula Fox
#60. The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
Paul De Man
#61. I smiled and unraveled a plan that some strategic command at the back of my mind had been hatching while the woman in me made love to Rosetta Jeanette Lawson in the guise of a man.
Walter Mosley
#62. Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.
Charles Ludlam
#63. If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.
Lucius Shepard
#64. Religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.
Georgia Harkness
#65. You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.
Will Rogers
#66. Struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne's?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#67. St. Patrick ... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.
Charles Madigan
#68. The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.
William Pfaff
#69. The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.
Patrick David Wall
#70. Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.
Miroslav Volf
#71. I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.
Elizabeth I
#72. ... you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.
Daphne Du Maurier
#73. There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#74. Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
Brandi Chastain
#75. Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Denise Levertov
#76. I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#77. Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.
Leigh Bardugo
#78. Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise.
Sigmar Gabriel
#79. A similar criticism arose in the guise of "reflexivity," the idea that the very act of observing another person's actions changes those actions, making observational methods intrinsically flawed.
Anonymous
#80. Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. The substitutes have been handed them in the guise of religious rituals, good works, community effort, or social reform ... none of which can gain a person a right relationship with God.
Billy Graham
#81. In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.
Charles Krauthammer
#82. It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
Homer
#83. If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
#84. You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.
Rob Roberge
#85. Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you
Johnny Depp
#86. Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
Laini Taylor
#87. It could be considered that science, as science, had failed the outer worlds. To be reaccepted it would have to present itself in another guise - and it has done just that. It works out beautifully." "Interesting!" The mayor placed his arms around his
Isaac Asimov
#88. Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.
Benjamin Franklin
#89. The two chapters of Matthew's Gospel devoted to the infancy narratives are not a meditation presented under the guise of stories, but the converse: Matthew is recounting real history, theologically thought through and interpreted, and thus he helps us to understand the mystery of Jesus more deeply.
Pope Benedict XVI
#90. No matter what happens, we'll always be together, always find a way to locate each other. No matter which guise my soul decides to wear, I will always return to you. Just like I always have returned to you.
Alyson Noel
#91. What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.
Joseph Brodsky
#93. Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.
Agatha Christie
#94. I've always considered children's parties an excuse for adults to get drunk under the guise of doing something special for their child. I know my dad had always exploited that idea anyway.
L. H. Cosway
#95. A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner
#96. I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
Ameen Rihani
#97. Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind
C.R. Strahan
#98. Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.
Mother Teresa
#99. [...] something that was called an agreement is not necessarily always that. On the contrary, one party might advance their self-interest under the guise of a common decision, and in the long run it often becomes clear that someone is suffering, despite assurances to the contrary.
David Lagercrantz
#100. Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll
With all my flesh, and keep my soul.
Stevie Smith
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