Guise Quotes
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.
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.
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.
I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.
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.
...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.
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
…you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.
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.
Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible politics.
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.
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.
The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.
Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.
Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.
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.
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.
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.
Be yourself! Don’t try to fabricate your personality in the guise of impressing others.
Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.
