(98 quotes found)
“Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes”
David Hume
“Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.”
Horace Mann
“Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”
Juvenal
“Sin goes in a disguise, and thence is welcome; like Judas, it kisses and kills; like Joab, it salutes and slays”
George Swinnock
“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 believe this is a cleverly disguised opportunity for us to grow, and we are growing to meet this challenge.”
Yolanda King
“Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.”
William Hurrell Mallock
“What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.”
Kitty O'Neill Collins
“Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise”
William Penn
“They have a way of disguising who everybody is and where everybody is.”
Daniel Inman
