Top 100 In Disguise Quotes
#1. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!
Israelmore Ayivor
#2. A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
Diane Setterfield
#3. Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.
Diane Lane
#4. 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
#5. In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.
Charles Lamb
#6. Here is yet another statement of the core idea of this book, that data concerning people is best thought of as people in disguise, and they're usually up to something.
Jaron Lanier
#7. He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#8. I see many people who disguise themselves. I know some people who say, "I'm an artist, I'm very creative, I'm different from ordinary people." But I don't believe those people. I like to see the strangeness or weirdness in ordinary people or ordinary scenery or ordinary, everyday life.
Haruki Murakami
#9. God never cooperates with evil. He simply offers us the opportunity to transform the painful experiences in our lives into advantages and blessings. (Fr. Maximos)
Kyriacos C. Markides
#10. 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
#11. Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.
Garrison Keillor
#12. The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.
Scott A. Butler
#13. Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.
Dalai Lama
#14. Do you know what a friend is, milord? (Emily)
An enemy in disguise. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#15. My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
Bryan Callen
#16. Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise.
Steven Furtick
#17. If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Arthur Helps
#18. Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.
Janet Turpin Myers
#19. The torment of personal relations. Nothing new there except in the disguise, and in the escape on the wings of adjectives. Sweet to be pierced by daggers at the end of paragraphs.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#20. Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.
John Adams
#21. You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.
Elvis Presley
#22. I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
Zadie Smith
#23. Anger is fear in disguise.
Rajneesh
#25. AWESOME things come to those who focus on the positive, recognize the blessings, find the humor and never give up!
Tanya Masse
#27. Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.
Benjamin Constant
#28. What Robert was trying to do so intently was, in fact, no more than craft. He did no more than copy my tics and twitches - even to the point of staring at my family portrait, a very personal part of my disguise, for his character research -
Jeff Lindsay
#29. She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.
Peggy Webb
#30. Beware of perpetrators in disguise ... Some people set fires wherever they go, and have mastered the art of playing the burn victim.
Steve Maraboli
#31. I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.
Norman Lock
#32. Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.
Mother Teresa
#34. After I removed all the cultural coatings and traditions that disguise each religion, I discovered the soul to be the same in all of them. Therefore, it is hard for me to say I am just one, when my heart recognizes the truths in them all.
Suzy Kassem
#35. If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.
Tove Lo
#36. As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.
David Bowie
#38. History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
Sydney J. Harris
#40. Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.
Pusha T
#41. Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.
Lu Xun
#42. No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
Arthur Schnitzler
#43. Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#44. I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
Larry Hagman
#45. I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.
Tony Shalhoub
#46. A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.
Jay Leno
#47. I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.
J. D. Souther
#48. If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.
Richard Rohr
#50. THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.
Napoleon Hill
#51. We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
Alice Walker
#52. When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.
Charlotte Eriksson
#53. It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
Richard Dawkins
#54. I'm not asleep," Jane reassured her. "I'm thinking about the story." "I heard every word," said Michael, yawning. The Park Keeper rocked, as if in a trance. "A Nex-plorer in disguise," he murmured, "sittin' in the midnight sun and climbin' the North Pole!" "Ouch!
P.L. Travers
#55. Things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision
E. E. Cummings
#56. I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.
Rebecca West
#57. We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#59. 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
#60. Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it? was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.
Emily Bronte
#61. I woke up this morning exhausted from hiding the me of me. So I stand here confiding there's more to Devon than jump shot and rim. I'm more than tall and lengthy of limb. I dare you to peep behind these eyes, discover the poet in tough-guy disguise. Don't call me Jump Shot. My name is surprise.
Nikki Grimes
#62. Busman's holiday is an expression which refers to when people do the same thing on vacation that they do in their everyday lives, such as plumbers who visit the Museum of Sinks, or villains who disguise themselves even on their days off.
Lemony Snicket
#64. 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
#65. Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.
Charles Dickens
#66. We recklessly attempt to disguise our 'greed' by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as 'rights' and 'privileges.' Yet, if we dare dress 'greed' in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#67. The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Washington Allston
#68. Because you understand. More than anyone. Because you know what it's like never to trust anyone - to be completely alone, lost in a disguise of your own making. Because ... because for quite some time I've -
Sara B. Larson
#69. Everything that is given to us in life is either a blessing or a curse.
Seth Adam Smith
#70. The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
Annie Jacobsen
#71. I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
Taylor Kitsch
#72. I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.
Rebecca Wells
#73. The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.
Julia Leigh
#74. He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.
Jonathan Maberry
#75. What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise
Doreen Virtue
#76. Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
Kim Harrison
#77. Success without duplication is merely future failure in disguise.
Randy Gage
#78. I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.
Paul Reubens
#79. In the practice of art ... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry ... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.
Joshua Reynolds
#80. So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?
Bruce Springsteen
#81. Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didn't know how to read the signs.
Jan Hellriegel
#82. When I look through your eyes, I see a disguise, and in that disguise, I see love, and in that love, you are fabulous.
Sahara Sunday Spain
#83. Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise.
Martin Luther
#84. Some parents manufacture an affirmative construction of their child's disability to disguise their despair, while others have a deep and genuine experience of joy in caring for disabled children, and that sometimes the first stance can generate the second.
Andrew Solomon
#85. Sometimes it also helps you realize that what you believe are problems are actually blessings in disguise.
Rich Amooi
#86. Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#87. We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
Alex Campbell
#88. Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission ... We live not a moment exempt from its influence.
Blaise Pascal
#89. The world was not perfect. It was dark, evil, and full of monsters in human disguise. The world's a horrible place, and you were no safer surrounded by family than you were wandering the streets alone.
Natasha Preston
#90. Quality takes time and reduces quantity, so it makes you, in a sense, less efficient. The efficiency-optimized organization recognizes quality as its enemy. That's why many corporate Quality Programs are really Quality Reduction Programs in disguise.
Tom DeMarco
#92. In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.
Judy Holliday
#95. Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise
but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
Emily Post
#96. Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Douglas Coupland
#97. The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.
Vanna Bonta
#98. Sometimes God uses people to test you. Be patient with people because you never know how God can use them to bring you your breakthrough.
Jeanette Coron
#99. The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes.
William D. Burt
#100. Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise
Of mortal men conceal'd their deities;
One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
Ovid
