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Quotes About Conceal

D'Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Half my concern in love became how to disguise love, to make it harmless and merry.
~ Alice Munro
Along with the constant pain was the constant need to pretend you weren't in pain at all, as though the worst thing about your agony was that it might put other people out.
~ Joe Abercrombie
If at first you do succeed — try to hide your astonishment.
~ Anonymous
Disappear in the wind.. reappear when in need... -Caleb Alan Hall
~ Anonymous
But decent augurs grin behind their masks. They never preach to each other.
~ Ford Madox Ford
A beautiful face can mask great evil...
~ Francine Rivers
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
~ James Agate
Hamilton's besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism.
~ Ron Chernow
If any signs were obvious, I think I must have buried them. Because when you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.
~ Luke Davies
Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture
~ M. Scott Peck, M.D.
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I had placed them.
~ Amy Tan
he words we did not shout, the tears unshed, the curse we swallowed, the phrase we shortened, the love we killed, turned into magnetic iron ore, into tourmaline, into pyrite agate, blood congealed into cinnabar, blood calcinated, leadened into galena, oxidized, aluminized, sulphated, calcinated, the mineral glow of dead meteors and exhausted suns in the forest of dead trees and dead desires.
~ Anais Nin
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
~ Andre Malraux
No one could rival Arthur Less for his ability to exit a room while remaining inside it.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.
~ Sara Pennypacker
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
~ Sarah Dessen
He looked down through the green transparency to the stony bottom webbed with golden lines. Never still. If his soul could cast a reflection so briljant, and so intensely sweet, he might beg God to make such use of him. But that would be too childish. The actual sphere is not clear like this, but turbulent, angry. A vast human action is going on. Death watches. So if you have some happiness, conceal it. And when your heart is full, keep your mouth shut also.
~ Saul Bellow
The graphical desktop guides useful behavior and hides what is true but not useful.
~ John Brockman
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
~ John Dryden
I can't really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.
~ Hilary Duff