All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
Willie Mays

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
Mercy Otis Warren

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
Herbert Read

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Northrop Frye

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
Gerrit Smith

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
Francis Picabia

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
John Sladek

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Juvenal

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
John Grierson

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
Joyce Grenfell

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen

Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.
Jonathan Davis

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
Herbert Prochnow