Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.
Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.
Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations of celestial beings in disguise; they possess supernatural abilities, and they can be our spiritual guides and healers.
On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.
Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.
Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Obstacles are Opportunities in 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.
I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.
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.
I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.