Conceal You Quotes

#1. Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

Susan Sontag

#2. Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Actually I am having so much fun, it has been the most fun time now that it has been announced and I don't have to, you know, it was really difficult to conceal, but now that I can be proud and excited about it I'm having so much fun shopping - it's great.

Beyonce Knowles

#4. Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

Robert E.Lee

#5. Me!" returned Elinor in some confusion; "indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell."
"Nor I," answered Marianne with energy, "our situations then are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing." (27.17)

Jane Austen

#6. As she took Liam, she whispered to Dragos, "You win all the good Daddy points."
His eyes glinted with wicked sensuality, and his eyelids lowered to conceal it. Ever the opportunist, he murmured, "And what will that get me?"
"If you play your cards right, it might get you lucky later.

Thea Harrison

#7. Best if you think of this room as a minefield. Tread carefully or get exploded, she advised Jared, and then said aloud, Hideous brats! We have a guest. Conceal evidence of your crimes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#8. Sometimes I think we only imagine ourselves. It's hard sometimes, coming face-to-face with your truer nature
the part that you conceal, even from yourself.

Elizabeth Kelly

#9. Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

Doris Humphrey

#10. If you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?

H.D.

#11. Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success

Ray Bergman

#12. In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them

Sun Tzu

#13. You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?

Emily Bronte

#14. You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Publilius Syrus

#15. Whatever you do," I said quietly, "don't marry Tomas Mandray. His father beats his wife, and none of his sons do anything to stop it." Nesta's eyes widened, but I added, "Bruises are harder to conceal than poverty.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My

Alexandre Dumas

#17. You might think of a thought as an invisible, innocuous little thing. Something that barely exists. But a thought is something hard to conceal. Hold a thought and it melts all over your hands. Touch something else and now you've left traces of it. Hide it under your shirt and it bleeds through.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#18. When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

Bob Dylan

#19. To call up a demon you must learn its name. Men dreamed that, once, but now it is real in another way. You know that, Case. Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names . . .

William Gibson

#20. If you light a fire, you cannot conceal the smoke.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Some of them will welcome me as small boys do a teacher, telling me the little secrets better to conceal the big ones.For I tell you, that secrets are not kept by being secretive;

Talbot Mundy

#22. Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

Charles Stross

#23. Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#24. You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

Jean Giraudoux

#25. How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

Idries Shah

#26. I have sharp teeth inside my mouth,
Inside my dark red lips,
And lacquer slickly hides the claws
In my red fingertips.

So I conceal my armoury.
Yours is all on view.
You think you are possessing me-
But I've got my teeth in you.

Angela Carter

#27. Perfection doesn't exist," I reply. "It's a mask people wear to conceal their ugly truths. Never trust someone who only ever smiles at you.

J.M. Darhower

#28. This was the dream: to have a house of your own, to fill it with furniture and paint the shutters whatever color you chose. But a fine-looking house could conceal so many horrors. It seemed they spent half their lives just trying to hold it together.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#29. Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.

Michael Bassey

#30. There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ?

Terry Pratchett

#31. Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.

Mariah Carey

#32. Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

Horace

#33. Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can't for long conceal the toxic spots on your character - Philip Larkin is Exhibit A - nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.

William Giraldi

#34. Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Benjamin Disraeli

#35. Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#36. Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Al Stewart

#37. And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#38. The intellectual is called on the carpet ... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

Herbert Marcuse

#39. Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal.

Lord Chesterfield

#40. Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it.

J.K. Rowling

#41. I simply believe that you should never tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy,' said Blume.

Conor Fitzgerald

#42. It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Dan Brown

#43. The more pains you take with a thing, the more should you conceal them, so that it may appear to arise spontaneously from your own natural character.

Baltasar Gracian

#44. If you run on lies long enough, they become your truth.
Such delicate fabric we conceal our motives in.
Colors to obscure the truth of our hearts.
No one is a bad person in his or her own mind.
We are all noble protagonists.

Rick Remender

#45. A man you've had to conceal in some unsatisfactory hiding place, who then begins to snore.

Sei Shonagon

#46. Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you'll see that they're revealing everything.

William Monahan

#47. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

Bertrand Russell

#48. Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.

Chogyam Trungpa

#49. The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to ... deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment, ...

Gautama Buddha

#50. Charles Spurgeon's words: You may conceal your infirmity, even from your dearest friend, but you will not conceal it from your worst enemy.

Beth Moore

#51. If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Seth Godin

#52. Show yourself!" Snape said, tapping the map sharply. It stayed blank. Harry was taking deep, calming breaths. "Professor Severus Snape, master of this school, commands you to yield the information you conceal!" Snape said, hitting the map with his wand.

J.K. Rowling

#53. You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

Alexandre Dumas

#54. If you fall in love with jerk, don't you just reject him.
He may reveal the jerk part of you which concealed.

Toba Beta

#55. Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#56. Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. ... Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

Isocrates

#57. Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can't be good, be careful.

Baltasar Gracian

#58. Words can lie. Words can deceive and delude and conceal and avoid. But the things you do, how you move, how you touch, those things cannot lie.

Jasinda Wilder

#59. Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly removed from the treasures they conceal. When you undress a woman you are opening the drapes in a darkened room to gaze upon a glimpse of paradise.

Chloe Thurlow