Conceal Quotes
308 quotes by 250 authors
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
— Mark Twain
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If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.
— Sun Tzu
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are…
— Kenneth Tynan
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In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
— John Milton
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If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry…
— David Prosser, Jr.
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The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it…
— Francois Mauriac
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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may…
— Khalil Gibran
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Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than…
— Robert E. Lee
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Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:…
— Thomas Paine
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We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his…
— Alice McDermott
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Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal
— Thrity Umrigar
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A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
— Roger Bacon
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,…
— Yousuf Karsh
Who Wrote These Conceal Quotes
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