Best Concealment Quotes
39 Concealment quotes by 37 unique authors
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America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of…
— David Riesman
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment…
— John Ruskin
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I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short…
— Ayelet Waldman
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To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her…
— Galway Kinnell
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She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with…
— William Shakespeare
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To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is…
— Anne Bronte
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What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass.…
— Tana French
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Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
— Joseph Hall
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
— Noam Chomsky
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
— Wendell Phillips
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A fault is fostered by concealment.
— Virgil
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Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.
— Matthew Scully
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Rare qualities may sometimes be prerogatives without being advantages; and though a needless ostentation of ones excellencies may be more glorious, a modest concealment of…
— Robert Boyle
Who Wrote These Concealment Quotes
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