Quotes About Concealment

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I keep my wishes and dreams secret, like a child.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.

No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and foreign enough to begin with, and so long as they were not asked, they found it easier, from 1919 on, to let the matter drop.

Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

For thirty years, Jesus never allowed his divinity to manifest itself. He was infinitely superior to everyone but never showed it.

If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Every woman is possessive though she may not show it.