Conceal Quotes

308 Conceal quotes by 245 unique authors

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. — Benjamin Disraeli
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds.… — Terry Eagleton
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. — St. Jerome
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain. — Jesse Jackson
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality. — Paul Johnson
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to… — Hugh Laurie
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things. — Damian Lewis
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as… — Russell Lynes
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. — David Ogilvy
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. — William Osler
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. — Blaise Pascal
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to… — Blaise Pascal
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform… — Busta Rhymes
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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