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Quotes About Conceal

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
~ Rumi
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
~ Gena Rowlands
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.
~ Margaret Atwood
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
~ Bill Condon
It's crazy the things a person can pretend not to notice.
~ Rebecca Stead
You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.
~ Richard Siken
He did not like me and I did not like him, though I tried harder than he to conceal my dislike.
~ Richard Wright
He was a psychologist, and degrees in psychology, I find, often conceal deviant tendencies.
~ Rick Moody
Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.
~ Rick Riordan
I tried to smile like I wasn't about to die.
~ Rick Riordan
She tried to sound casual and upbeat but in her heart she felt a sudden bleakness.
~ Katie Fforde
You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows.
~ William Peter Horn
O, what may man within him hide,Though angel on the outward side!
~ William Shakespeare
We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy.
~ Yahia Lababidi
The secrets a house is desperate to conceal will, sooner or later, be shouted from the rooftops.
~ Yasmina Khadra
I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.
~ David Ogilvy
In my experience most people in your profession seem to think that if they do not admit the existence of a mistake, the mistake will not exist.
~ David R. Dow
Although I smile a lot, it's because I hide a lot from my truth. The truth that some days I just feel like another lost nigga.
~ David Weaver
Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.
~ George W. Bush
Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.
~ Douglas Coupland
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
~ Mason Cooley
I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel
~ Adele Parks
What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.
~ Jean Cocteau
He did not joke, as the newspapers dared report, for sarcasm is bitter and conceals ferments of despair.
~ Jean Genet