Conceal Quotes

308 Conceal quotes by 245 unique authors

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
Reveal art; conceal the artist. — Gustave Flaubert
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become… — Joseph Joubert
Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be… — Chogyam Trungpa
Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. — George F. Kennan
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. — Clement Greenberg
By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own. — Zeno of Elea
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites… — Henry Clay
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves… — Erasmus Darwin
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without… — Baldassare Castiglione
Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art. — Josef von Sternberg

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