Reveal Conceal 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. Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Michael Oakeshott

#4. Masks reveal. They don't conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires.

Chloe Thurlow

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. It was one of those feminine faces whose every line has its own particular charm, and seems to possess a meaning, whose every movement seems to reveal or to conceal something.

Guy De Maupassant

#8. We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

Jesse Jackson

#9. We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy.

Yahia Lababidi

#10. Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

Errol Morris

#11. Nicknames reveal the man; real names conceal the man.

F.W. Boreham

#12. Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.

A.D. Posey

#13. Of what is concealed can also be revealed.

Pushpa Rana

#14. Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

John Paul Caponigro

#15. 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

#16. Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Irving R. Levine

#17. I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

Arlen Specter

#18. 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

#19. In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#20. 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

#21. Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal

Thrity Umrigar

#22. 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

#23. From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

Basil Hume

#24. Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Damian Lewis

#25. 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

#26. Reveal art; conceal the artist.

Gustave Flaubert

#27. 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

#28. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

Okakura Kakuzo

#29. The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal

Yukio Mishima

#30. 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

#31. Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

David Mamet

#32. The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

Oscar Wilde

#33. The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest

Claude C. Hopkins