It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.
So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?
I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
Never wear a hat and sunglasses at the same time, because it looks like you're wearing a disguise.
Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
When I got to jail, it was a blessing in disguise because it made me reevaluate and check who I am as a person.
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.
Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.
The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!
Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.
I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.
She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange.
The man forget not, though in rags he lies,
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.
In my pictures, you never know, that’s the mystery. It’s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It’s fashion in disguise.
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.
Scammers and spammers use spoofing to disguise their identity, to trick consumers into answering unwanted calls, and to hide from authorities.
By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
You've been hurt before, I can
see it in your eyes. You try to
smile it away, some things you
can't disguise.
If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.
A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double entendres and humour comes from and that's where we come from.
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.
The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel.
What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?
I have no complaints or grudges against my dad. Actually my father's remarriage was a blessing in disguise for us.
You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.
Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise.
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.
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