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.

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.

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.

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.

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise it's just you.

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

Education n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

I get recognised sometimes and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises but that doesn't work.

Baseball is a game yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility its almost leisurely pace baseball is violence under wraps.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian unless the latter too be lovers in disguise.