Defeat may be victory in disguise. [ Longfellow ]
Afflictions are blessings in disguise. [ Proverb ]
Honesty needs no disguise or ornament. [ Otway ]
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise. [ Broadhurst ]
Our virtues are often but vices in disguise. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes.
But not too humbly, or she will despise
Thee and thy suit though told in moving tropes;
Disguise even tenderness, if thou art wise. [ Byron ]
Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes).
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flashed an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. [ Byron ]
Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. [ Talleyrand ]
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise! [ Lavater ]
Man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. [ Young ]
No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not. [ Rochefoucauld ]
No disguise can long conceal love where it really exists, nor feign it where it is not. [ Rochefoucauld ]
True eyes, too pure and too honest in aught to disguise the sweet soul shining through them. [ Owen Meredith ]
'Tis great - 'tis manly to disdain disguise. It shows our spirit, or it proves out strength. [ Young ]
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. [ Chapin ]
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. [ Lamb ]
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. [ I. Watts ]
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. [ Arthur Helps ]
Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. [ Young ]
A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Pride, in some particular disguise or other - often a secret to be proud himself - is the most ordinary spring of action among men. [ Steele ]
Fine speeches are the instruments of fools or knaves, who use them when they want good sense; but honesty needs no disguise or ornament. [ Otway ]
In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. [ Franklin ]
Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate - how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise! [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]