Quotes About Conceal

I suspect I said nothing because I was doing what I have done most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves.

The more perfect the instrument as a measurer of time, the more completely does it conceal time's arrow.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

Nu eu sunt bufonul, ci societatea monstruos de cinic? ?i naiv de incon?tient? care pretinde c? este serioas? numai pentru a-?i ascunde mai bine nebunia. Eu, în schimb - nu sunt nebun.

Yeah! I'm eccedentesiast because I know No-one is going to understand my pain.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

He did his best to conceal this antipathy, because the one thing he hated, more than constituted authority itself, was to hear constituted authority questioned by anyone but himself. This is perhaps an endemic trait in all who love power, and my father had an absolute passion for power, although he was never in a position to wield it on a notable scale.

Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations.

Please let me go, I won't tell...

It'll be symbolic. Let the women dress the way savages dress everywhere—bedeck themselves in old dead parts of birds and animals, smear their faces with colored clay, mash flowers over themselves to conceal their natural stench. The same way they always dress. Now, for Chrissake!

right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to conceal it?" "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein

Heather hid a smile at the

You keep saying "I'm fine" to people when you're not fine. You think you should be fine. You keep saying to yourself: "Why aren't I fine?

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

my father] usually concealed his rages with unconvincing politeness to contain his sparse energy, an instinct I may have inherited

subtle yet powerful role of analogy in persuasion. Because while they often operate unnoticed, analogies aren't accidents, they're arguments—arguments that, like icebergs, conceal most of their mass and power beneath the surface. In many arguments, whoever has the best analogy wins.