Top 100 Quotes About Conceal
#1. It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.
Benjamin Disraeli
#2. Once again, vague terminology helped conceal what was really going on.
Michael Crichton
#3. In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them
Sun Tzu
#4. 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
#5. I hated them horribly, though perhaps I was worse than any of them. They repaid me in the same way, and did not conceal their aversion for me. But by then I did not desire their affection: on the contrary, I continually longed for their humiliation.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#6. While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal
the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have
nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,
is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
Horace Greeley
#7. Beauties, when disposed to sleep,
Should from the eye of keen inspector keep:
The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise,
May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes;
Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes,
And all the homely features homelier makes.
George Crabbe
#8. If we don't know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.
William Shakespeare
#11. Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.
Northrop Frye
#12. He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom." - Benjamin Franklin.
Peter Rogers
#13. It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem
Ovid
#14. There is no moment in which we say good-bye, there is no finality as he slips into peacefulness, he simply leaves us, and though I seek courage when he passes I am weakened by tears, but I must hide them for he leaves us a lie to conceal, a lie he sent to save us.
Lisa O'Donnell
#16. I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?
Everett Ruess
#17. I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
Matthew Arnold
#18. We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found.
Max Barry
#19. I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
Quentin Blake
#20. In those first moments it was easier to conceal a confusion of feeling behind a motherly tone
Ian McEwan
#21. If you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?
H.D.
#22. 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
#23. Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism.
Ron Chernow
#24. 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
#25. Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.
Sun Tzu
#26. The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
Henry Clay
#27. On the other hand I won't conceal the fact from anyone that once upon a time a little something happened to me. I saw a little something. But never except just that once.
Halldor Laxness
#29. To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.
Dada Bhagwan
#30. Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
Kate Burridge
#31. When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.
Brian Herbert
#32. When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#33. As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.
Richard Posner
#34. Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts
Jose Saramago
#35. For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
Khalil Gibran
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I affirm that the crisis of the disc is a lure, it does not exist: the offer is intact, the increasing demand. But, each night, in the hangars of the music, the half of stock is stolen. Imagine the reaction of Renault vis-a-vis delinquents who would force the door daily to conceal the cars!
Jean-Louis Murat
#40. In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
Brennan Manning
#41. A man cannot conceal joy," I said, though I wasn't sure where it was coming from, "because joy undoes deceit. What I have, I will share, because I must. There is no other choice.
Kristina Meister
#42. Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George Du Maurier
#43. Masks reveal. They don't conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires.
Chloe Thurlow
#44. His gaze drank me in and he made no attempt to conceal that fact.
Kenya Wright
#45. He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone, anyone, if it would provide a respite from the loneliness and rain and cold of Madrid, but this was a discovery that he preferred to conceal.
Roberto Bolano
#46. Items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all, come to that.
Alan Sillitoe
#48. That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.
Steven Johnson
#49. The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
Edward Young
#50. There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.
Lord Chesterfield
#51. If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.
Charles Caleb Colton
#52. I once undertook on behalf of a friend to smuggle a small dog through the customs. I was of ample proportions, and managed to conceal the little dog upon my person. All went well until my bosom barked.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#53. 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
#54. The roses once grew there, and well their lives conceal; the ivy cobbled up their voices, and made me not to feel.
Amy N. Edwards
#55. I am the slave of what I have spoken, but the master of what I conceal.
Ramsay Wood
#56. I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her work would be used, that is, to conceal a fraudulent scheme from federal regulators.
Viet D. Dinh
#57. For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
Michael Oakeshott
#58. Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.
John Webster
#59. Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#60. 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
#61. All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
Steven Millhauser
#62. The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms
Kamila Shamsie
#63. Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
Leo Tolstoy
#64. Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you'll see that they're revealing everything.
William Monahan
#65. The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
John Le Carre
#66. Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#67. What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?
Edith Wharton
#68. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
Walt Whitman
#69. 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
#70. It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Horace
#71. It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
Stephanie Dowrick
#72. We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
Albert Einstein
#73. Then it was something more. I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something - most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning - and
F Scott Fitzgerald
#74. The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
P.G. Wodehouse
#75. 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
#76. Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.
Charles Caleb Colton
#77. Shadow conceals - light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
Josef Von Sternberg
#78. A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
Richard Gregory
#79. Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
Gerard Cox
#80. Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.
Camille Paglia
#81. They say the eyes are the windows to our soul; glass gateways that do little to conceal our true self. Yet, for me, they're also the narrators of our heart and give insight to our well-kept secrets... secrets I wanted to remain hidden.
K.M. Golland
#82. Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
Russell Lynes
#83. Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.
Carl Lotus Becker
#84. 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
#86. Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal
Thrity Umrigar
#87. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Oscar Wilde
#88. If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.
Julien Green
#89. The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.
George H. Smith
#90. Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
Honore De Balzac
#91. you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My
Alexandre Dumas
#92. All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.
Jean De La Bruyere
#93. The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Lucan
#95. The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Bill Vaughan
#96. While the world piles fear on top of light, our job is to remember that light within. When we do, whatever seems to conceal it ceases to exist
Debra Landwehr Engle
#97. I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
George Horace Lorimer
#98. He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
Winston Churchill
#99. Behind her warm facade radiating empathy and understanding, there was an aggressive, bad- tempered bitch, putting up endless walls of goodness to conceal her rage and resentment toward the entire world. She was like an alligator in a velvet jumpsuit.
Zygmunt Miloszewski
#100. Is it possible, after all, that in spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of commonplaceness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim, can not resolve?
Herman Melville
