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Quotes About Conceal

The hawk with talent hides its talons.
~ Barry Eisler
I noted he had no place to conceal a weapon or transmitter. I wondered whether the attire had been chosen deliberately, to reassure me. Dox liked to play the hick, and a lot of people bought the act, but I knew he could be subtle when he wanted to be.
~ Barry Eisler
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
~ Horace
It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The perfect quote sprang to mind, but I resisted saying it under my breath, since Jonathan would hear. I couldn't even mouth the words, since for all I knew, he'd hear my lips moving. So I conjured up a vision of the Tin Man and let him say it for me in my head. "Now I know I've got a heart. I can feel it breaking.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Shadow conceals-light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal and in what degrees to do this is all there is to art.
~ Josef von Sternberg
Our disputants put me in mind of the skuttle fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till be becomes invisible.
~ Joseph Addison
At this display the elder and less attractive of the maidens fled, uttering loud and continuous cries of apprehension in order to conceal the direction of her flight.
~ Ernest Brammah Smith
You can only force a smile for so long until it becomes a grimace.
~ Eugene Thacker
Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.
~ Liane Moriarty
If you are hurting inside, you can't really show it because you want the team to do well because that's part of football.
~ Shaun Wright-Phillips
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~ Horace
Whispering can disguise the shape of syllables, but not of mood.
~ Gregory Maguire
Her head had turned quickly away...Not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.
~ Gregory Maguire
Her head had turned away quickly as she stepped down, not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.
~ Gregory Maguire
It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.
~ Kelly Clarkson
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
~ Vivien Leigh
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Nic nie pozostaje ukryte na zawsze.
~ Simon Beckett
To show a mask and mirror to the world, and never let them see you're hurting.
~ Simon R. Green
Love is a boaster at heart, who cannot hide the stolen horse without giving a glimpse of the bridle.
~ Mary Renault
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge