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I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates. -- Elizabeth I
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. -- Edmund Burke
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. -- Emanuel Celler
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. -- Howard Thurman
Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior. -- George McGovern
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. -- Harry A. Blackmun
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. -- Honore de Balzac
This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state. -- Felix Dennis
There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it's never enough. -- Graham Swift
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. -- Erich Fromm
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced. -- Mike Mills
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. -- Hannah Arendt
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology. -- Jason Beghe
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. -- Kate Chopin
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. -- Henry Miller
One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British foreign policy, namely military intervention. -- Martin Jacques
I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise. -- Sigmar Gabriel
I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable. -- Joan Jett
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. -- Brandi Chastain
I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself. -- John le Carre
I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp. -- Matt Reeves
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited. -- Matt Groening
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise. -- Alan Moore
The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I can say it saved my life. -- Lindsay Wagner
Life's aspirations come in the guise of children. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue. -- Juvenal
Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom -- Edward Sapir
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. -- Denise Levertov
In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise. -- Mother Teresa
It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise. -- Homer
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise. -- Georges Braque
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary... -- Alberto Manguel
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old. -- William Pfaff
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime. -- Charles Ludlam
An evil for these times destined to move through the world in handsome human guise. -- Anne Rice
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. -- Paula Fox
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' -- Raymond Loewy
Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind -- C.R. Strahan
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it. -- Ameen Rihani
Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away. -- Richard B. Garnett
Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise. -- Agatha Christie
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them! -- Agatha Christie
Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it. -- Leigh Bardugo
I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it. -- Michel de Montaigne
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... -- Alfred Adler
The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification. -- Patrick David Wall
Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear. -- Laini Taylor
You decide if you're ready for something. It can come in the guise of, "Oh, I don't think I like this." -- Regina Spektor
Maybe I'm weak for music men. Maybe I'm weak, period. But I couldn't deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
There's beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it 'midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise. -- Felicia Hemans
The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor. -- Mother Teresa
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind -- Tadao Ando
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'... -- Bill Hicks
In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection. -- Charles Krauthammer
I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre. -- Quentin Tarantino
Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation. -- Joe Kraus
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. -- Paul de Man
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. -- Oscar Wilde
The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state. -- Irving Kristol
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul. -- Stevie Smith
Under the guise of being nice guys, the central bankers have done to the people what no army in history has been evil enough to do. -- Jarod Kintz
Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference. -- Raila Odinga
I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment. -- Moss Hart
Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive. -- Rush Limbaugh
Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive. -- Rush Limbaugh
The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living. -- Max Frisch
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. -- Erich Fromm
I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing. -- David Collenette
St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish. -- Charles Madigan
Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
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Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot. -- John Lennon
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. -- Tim Ferriss
You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up. -- Rob Roberge
...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for. -- Nic Pizzolatto
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition. -- Learned Hand
Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative principle, but do not insist on recognition. ("Absolute Evil") -- Julian Hawthorne
The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys. -- Lucius Shepard
It's much easier to put yourself out there under the guise of a character. You get a different name, different habits, different words. When I have to just be Nathan, that's when I feel vulnerable. -- Nathan Parsons
We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral. -- Margaret Thatcher
You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets. -- Will Rogers

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