Quotes About Conceal

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer. Citra suspected she never spoke of this to anyone else, and would probably never speak of it again.

Nelson tries not to react, but he knows that by not saying anything, his greed has expressed itself.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

We are the sum of all the moments in our lives - all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape it or conceal it.

But we are the sum of all the moments of our lives—all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape or conceal it. If the writer has used the clay of life to make his book, he has only used what all men must, what none can keep from using. Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.

A clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves...

She pretended not to notice the look of longing in his eyes. It didn't mean anything.

Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.

Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.

Use that ugly thing you keep inside your helm.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

Hold on, baby you're losing it The water's high, you're jumping into it And letting go...and no one knows That you cry, but you don't tell anyone That you might not be the golden one And you're tied together with a smile But you're coming undone

Aquéllos que han leído el Libro del tiempo nunca lo admiten

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.