Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter. — Francois Delsarte Copy Share Image
For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in… — Horace Copy Share Image
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection. — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding. — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and… — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
“Concealment, my dear Maria, is the foe of tranquility: however I may err in future, I will never be disingenuous in acknowledging… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“women are so suspicious of any interest that has not some obvious motive behind it, so terribly accustomed to concealment and suppression,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least… — Paracelsus Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Copy Share Image
“Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The power of uncovering India’s biggest concealment is in your hands.” — Sambhav Ratnakar Copy Share Image
Real bullets are for keeps, and concealment is not necessarily good cover. — Dick Couch Copy Share Image
