Quotes about Disguise

We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book to everyone. Alcoholics just have their powerlessness visible for all to see. The rest of us disguise it in different ways, and overcompensate for our more hidden and subtle addictions and attachments, especially our addiction to our way of thinking.

God comes to you disguised as your life," as my friend Paula D'Arcy so wisely says.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

Great opportunities disguise themselves as small tasks.

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding

I'd lived my life in a dim labyrinth of drudgery disguised as fun and pleasure.

The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.

can I have the heart to fluster the flustered Thipps further—that's very difficult to say quickly—by appearing in a top-hat and frock-coat? I think not. Ten to one he will overlook my trousers and mistake me for the undertaker. A grey suit, I fancy, neat but not gaudy, with a hat to tone, suits my other self better. Exit the amateur of first editions; new motive introduced by solo bassoon; enter Sherlock Holmes, disguised as a walking gentleman.

Appearances are often deceiving.