Conceals Quotes

85 Conceals quotes by 77 unique authors

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. — Marcel Proust
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and… — Voltaire
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal… — George Edward Woodberry
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets… — Ashwin Sanghi
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths… — Virginia Woolf
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember… — Herman Melville
The machine conceals the machinations. — Ursula K. Le Guin
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either… — W. Somerset Maugham
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. — Mark Twain
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain. — C.S. Lewis
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the… — Pope Benedict XVI
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful,… — Italo Calvino
I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and… — Jim Morrison
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the… — Jane Austen
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it… — Jane Austen
Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things matter less than what your heart… — Cassandra Clare
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. — Jeanette Winterson
As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but… — Reza Aslan
Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point… — Witold Gombrowicz
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no… — Albert Camus
Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence… — Delphine de Vigan
Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has… — Unknown Author
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. — Horace

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