We all wear some disguise, make some
professions, use some artifice, to set
ourselves off as being better than we are;
and yet it is not denied that we have some
good intentions and
praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
?William Hazlitt
We are so accustomed to wearing
a disguise before others that
eventually we are unable
to recognize ourselves.
?Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The closing years of life are like
the end of a masquerade party,
when the masks are dropped.
?Arthur Schopenhauer
Another belief of mine: that everyone
else my age is an adult,
whereas I am merely in disguise.
?Margaret Atwood
Opportunities are usually disguised
as hard work, so most
people don't recognize them.
?Ann Landers
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.
?GK Chesterton
What seems to be generosity is often
no more than disguised ambition,
which overlooks a small interest
in order to secure a great one.
?Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
The lover knows much more about
absolute good and universal beauty
than any logician or theologian, unless
the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
?George Santayana
