A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell Lowell

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.
Todd Solondz

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood

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.
Gore Vidal

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
Charles Lamb

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Thomas More

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa

Hills are speedwork in disguise.
Frank Shorter

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

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Gustav Mahler

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Arthur Erickson

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.
Julius Wellhausen

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
Bishop Robert South

Naked is the best disguise.
Jeanette Winterson

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
Leonard Maltin

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
Alexander Pope

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