Concealed Quotes
243 quotes by 197 authors
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But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy…
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in…
— D. V. Ager
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Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is…
— Samuel Johnson
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In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out…
— Robert Penn Warren
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Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.
— Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling
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In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
— Seneca the Younger
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.
— Dennis Rainey
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Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
— Seneca the Younger
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Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.
— Ovid
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Art is most effective when concealed.
— Ovid
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Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . .…
— Giacomo Puccini
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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
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Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
— Claudius Claudianus
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The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them…
— William Melmoth
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The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from…
— John Mason Good
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