Conceal Quotes
308 quotes by 245 authors
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From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.
— Basil Hume
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those…
— Albert Einstein
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The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so…
— Ogden Nash
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From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.…
— John Milton
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
— Robert South
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Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle
— Jean Rostand
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A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a…
— Lawrence Kushner
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It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
— Stephanie Dowrick
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I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal…
— Everett Ruess
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A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.
— Julien Torma
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It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest
— Claude C. Hopkins
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of…
— Camille Paglia
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No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire.…
— Lev Polugaevsky
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to…
— Truman Capote
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If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
— Henry David Thoreau
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Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
— Horace
Who Wrote These Conceal Quotes
245 authors contributed a total of 308 Conceal Quotes, led by these top contributors: