Conceal Quotes

308 quotes by 245 authors

There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest. — Lord Chesterfield
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human… — Adrienne Rich
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts. — Margaret Sanger
The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart. — Kabir
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness,… — John Cheever
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. — Anthony Trollope
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get… — Susan Sontag
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and… — Theodor Adorno
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks. — Michael Bassey
English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their… — Pierre Daninos
Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it. — Ogden Nash
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. — Horace
Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart. — Joseph Addison
We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what… — Mark Twain
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. — Lucretius
Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves… — Sidney Jourard

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