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.

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.