Undisguised Quotes

#1. It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one's exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

William Gaddis

#2. more real depravity, more shocking wickedness, more undisguised vice and immorality is to be witnessed at midday in the most public thoroughfares of Perth, with its population of 1500, than in any other city of fifty times its population, either in Europe or America.

Simon Adams

#3. We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

Neil Postman

#4. Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.

Jane Hirshfield

#5. Hubert, the great friend of Perceval, has only the steward's steward to bid him farewell," Wido said, clapping young Josson's back with undisguised delight. "The depth of Perceval's true love for Hubert is finally revealed." Josson smiled uneasily. "My lord Hector is busy with

Angela Elwell Hunt

#6. When you tell me to be good, it makes me want to be good,' I say, hearing the undisguised desire in my voice. I run my fingers through the hair at her temples, taking her face between my palms, and she doesn't move. 'It also makes me want to be very, very bad.

Tammara Webber

#7. Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

Archibald Hill

#8. The waiter was a kind of surrogate uncle or grandfather for the duration of the meal; he paradoxically made you feel at home by treating you with undisguised contempt.

Ted Merwin

#9. Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

Richard Dawkins

#10. What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Horace

#11. This grows wearisome, Allixta said. How long will she carry on?
Till she gets what she wants or drops, Rune answered, the awe in his voice undisguised. My mate likes to keep things simple.

Kresley Cole

#12. Bull. Shit. You want to get busy with him. You want to climb him like a cat on a curtain, Denise said with undisguised relish.

Sarah Mayberry

#13. Drama don't arrive by surprise; it is summoned, undisguised.

T.F. Hodge

#14. Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love for her, which were, to me, the best of good looks.

Charles Dickens

#15. Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

#16. Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Adolf Hitler

#17. We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

Neil Postman

#18. Indeed such is Montagu's enthusiasm, and so engaging is his undisguised admiration, that one is almost obligated to overlook the aside on page 311 where Montagu acknowledges indirectly that Tyson was almost entirely in error in all of his conclusions.

Richard T. Nash

#19. Alone knows what times we are living in when undisguised selfishness stifles all feelings of conscience, duty, or even ordinary decency.

Robert K. Massie

#20. I will go to the bank by the wood, and become undisguised and naked;

Walt Whitman

#21. Dr. Fortunato," Kristine shot back at Laurie, her resentment undisguised. "You don't know how we do things in Wright. Dr. Parrish doesn't care about hospital hierarchy. He's very accessible and he'd never let his ego get in the way of patient care. Maybe you do things differently where you work-

Lisa Scottoline

#22. Life isn't fair, he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

Lemony Snicket

#23. Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!

Terry Pratchett

#25. I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

Stanley Crouch

#26. Tarzan-like men are my weakness, apparently.

Colleen Houck

#27. Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

Ayn Rand

#28. There are loads of websites devoted to me.

Ben Barnes