Quotes About Concealment

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Apricots are the most private fruit, loath to reveal their secrets.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

Sylvia was a lady and would not allow herself really to care for the person in the world for whom it would be least decent of her to care...But

Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing.

nothing, and Mr. Havisham kept her from suspecting

himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when

It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

She wasn't crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he'd seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn't that big a girl to hold all of it—to hold her brother's life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that.

But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.

You cannot see me from where I look at myself.

If you turned sideways and stuck your tongue out, you could probably pass for a zipper.

Aware of how often she hides her good qualities because she is afraid of being misunderstood or mocked, she accuses herself of being uncharitable, supercilious

It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.

Même l'élégance efféminée de sa tenue d'équitation ne parvenait pas à dissimuler l'énorme puissance de ce corps

You can't kill what isn't there, even if what isn't there can kill you.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

Beware jargon. It usually hides ignorance and carries little knowledge.

You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.

When you take your stand along the maker's path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence.

Oholi podižu bedeme oko sebe iza kojih pokušavaju sakriti svoje sumnje i strahove.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes.