#disguise

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

#bound #call #disguises #evil #good

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #humor

Naked is the best disguise. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#disguise #naked

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#disguised #forget #god #greatest #greatest man

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#around #born #disguised #every #like

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dash #dead #disguise #famous #feline

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#canadian #darn #disguise #football #good

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

#absolute #any #beauty #disguise #good

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#heir #laughter #weeping

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. ↗

— John Sladek

#collections #disguised #most #novels #often