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Quotes on Disguise

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Charles Maurice De TalleyrandRead
I thought that I was in heaven _x000D_ _x000D_ But I was sure surprised _x000D_ _x000D_ Heaven help me, I didn't see _x000D_ _x000D_ The devil in your eyes_x000D_ _x000D_ You look like an angel _x000D_ _x000D_ Walk like an angel _x000D_ _x000D_ Talk like an angel_x000D_ _x000D_ But I got wise _x000D_ _x000D_ You're the devil in disguise _x000D_ _x000D_ Oh yes you are _x000D_ _x000D_ The devil in disguise
Elvis PresleyRead
Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts, angels do not fear. That's why they sing and that's how they fly. We, of course, are only angels in disguise.
Marianne WilliamsonRead
Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
Mother TeresaRead
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Carl JungRead
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.
Vladimir NabokovRead
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
Ludwig WittgensteinRead
I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?
Margaret AtwoodRead
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.
William ShakespeareRead
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
AesopRead
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
Alexander PopeRead
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
Salman RushdieRead
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.
D. H. LawrenceRead
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon HillRead
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
Werner HerzogRead

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