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Guise Quotes

On appearances that hide the real thing.

These quotes examine what happens 'under the guise' of something else, including political operations run 'under the guise of a charity,' a theme closely tied to questions of hidden Identity.

We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.

Quotes by Xavier Becerra

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...

Quotes by Thomas Jordan Jarvis

I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as...

Quotes by Steven Millhauser

There are plenty of Latina actresses that no one's ever heard of... Some are really brown, some are light-skinned, and some look like they're Caucasian, but it's like we only want to identify with a certain kind of look and...

Quotes by Sara Ramirez

Disguise Quotes

Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don't need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise - the Wicked Witch.

Quotes by Richard K. Morgan

White people who voted for Trump decided to invest in a president who underwrites white supremacy in the guise of populism.

Quotes by Patrisse Cullors

'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.

Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

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...

Quotes by Matt Reeves

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.

Quotes by Martin Jacques

Emotion Quotes

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...

Quotes by Lindsay Wagner

Under the guise of BDS, Jewish students on college campuses across the United States are being subjected to blatant anti-Semitism.

Quotes by Lee Zeldin

In the age of global warming hysteria and the $93 trillion 'Green' New Deal, leftist advocates for more government intervention in the economy under the guise of environmentalism have engaged in a new smear: If you don't buy into climate...

Quotes by Katie Pavlich

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.

Quotes by Kate Chopin

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.

Quotes by Jason Beghe

Identity Quotes

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Quotes by James Madison

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

Quotes by Howard Thurman

I have had teachers who were brutal. If you look up 'brutal' in a dictionary, you will see their names. And I think that it's under the guise of wanting to change the actor's habit - wanting to break bad...

Quotes by Henry Winkler

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.

Quotes by Henry Miller

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun

Illusion Quotes

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.

Quotes by Hannah Arendt

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Guise quotes collection about?
This page gathers quotes about guise - things presented under the appearance of something else. The lines span politics, media, and fiction, all exploring the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
Why do people search for quotes about guise or disguise?
The phrase 'under the guise of' is common in discussions of hidden motives or misleading appearances, so people look for these quotes when writing about politics, storytelling, or skepticism.
How do these quotes describe political operations using 'guise'?
One quote states that some groups run political operations disguised as charities to move undisclosed money into campaigns, describing this as a documented use of tax rules rather than taking a side on any one group.
Do these quotes describe guise in fiction or television?
Yes, one quote praises a TV mystery as a densely layered work with rich characterization under the guise of its mystery genre, using the word positively to describe skillful storytelling, related to Disguise quotes.
Is guise always described negatively in this collection?
Not always. While political examples here use it critically, the television example shows 'guise' can also describe a deliberate creative choice rather than something deceptive.

Others describe a TV mystery built under the guise of its genre, layered with detail. See also Identity and Illusion quotes.