Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.

Cards are war in disguise of a sport.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Seldom very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised perhaps shocked at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

As societies grow decadent the language grows decadent too. Words are used to disguise not to illuminate action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Julie Mia and I just met for a couple days doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean don't they and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention saved the myth.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

It is not to be disguised that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace which they would effect is superficial false and temporary.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

During times of war hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Patience n. A minor form of dispair disguised as a virtue.

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

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.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.