Conceal Quotes

308 Conceal quotes by 245 unique authors

Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to… — Brandon Mull
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all… — Joni Mitchell
A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread… — Jennifer Egan
Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental… — C.S. Lewis
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth — Jane Austen
here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing… — Daphne du Maurier
She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably… — Terry Pratchett
So what I'd really like is to try and conceal him somewhere safe, then go hunt, and come back and collect him. But I have… — Suzanne Collins
The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun.… — Paulo Coelho
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions… — Dean Koontz
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree. — P.G. Wodehouse
She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought… — Nicole Krauss
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my… — Anais Nin
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to… — Frank Herbert
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy… — Stephen Dunn
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would… — Bertrand Russell
The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms — Kamila Shamsie
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm. — August Bournonville
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. — Seneca the Younger
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded… — Mark Twain

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