Quotes: Disguise

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

And that’s just what I’m saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.