Concealment, my dear Maria, is the foe of tranquility…

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

— Fanny Burney

I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best…

— Grover Cleveland

I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape…

— Arnulf Rainer

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

— Epicurus

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

— Horace

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

— Mark Twain

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their…

— Matthew Scully

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per…

— June Jordan

“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.”

— Idries Shah

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it…

— J. William Fulbright

“women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind it, so terribly accustomed to concealment and suppression, that they…

— Virginia Woolf

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret…

— John F. Kennedy

“Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…

— Richard M. Weaver

Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding.

— Raf Simons