Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.” — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of… — Alasdair Gray 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
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. — Anonymous 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
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. — Iris Murdoch 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
“There is no virtue in concealment. When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as… — M.T. Anderson 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
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a… — Elbert Hubbard 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
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
Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up,… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used as Concealment Revealer. It both conceals and reveals, like great dialogue. Here’s some great dialogue I wrote… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager… — Leonard Cohen 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 great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but… — Adam Weishaupt 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
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Martin Buber 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
“ Any relationship with long-term potential has a honeymoon period, however brief, marked by the happy illusion that one's lover might be… — Zack Love 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
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection. — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image