Concealed Quotes

243 quotes by 197 authors

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. — Honore de Balzac
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such… — Joseph Addison
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. — Theodor Adorno
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. — Jean de la Bruyere
I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of… — Sandra Bullock
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple… — Friedrich Engels
No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize… — Niccolo Machiavelli
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and… — Blaise Pascal
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they… — Samuel Johnson
Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing. — Ambrose Bierce
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be… — Charles Caleb Colton
In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some… — Lloyd Alexander
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed… — Albert Claude
He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his… — Kim Edwards
We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as… — Vladimir Lenin
In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the… — Ann Coulter

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