Words matter. These are the best Conceal Quotes from famous people such as Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Kayleigh McEnany, Bob Stoops, St. Jerome, Hugh Laurie, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 be plundered.
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At the end of the day, if someone tries to conceal something they will, and when you find out, you deal with it. That’s it. We can’t possibly know everything that happens.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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 conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted ‘Hey! It’s Dr. House.’
I don’t have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
It is not a crime nor an impeachable offense to engage in inappropriate personal conduct; nor is it a crime to obstruct or conceal an embarrassing relationship.
I make no special effort to conceal my surname online; the reason I do not use it is more because I dislike, even loathe it, than because I want to keep it a secret.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.
When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what you have been at such pains to conceal.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
A myth that operated for a year was that my broad structure secretly held a deadly body. I was so wary of my burgeoning tummy that I would conceal it by wearing very loose clothes.
Dramatically it’s always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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.
The trick is to learn to contain one’s ego, not conceal it.
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I’m able to conceal the information I’m trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
It’s not about what you tell the reader, it’s about what you conceal.
Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.
There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.
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 where it is not.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.
