Quotes About Concealment

I really don't like showing my hand.

You may call me Mogget. As to what I am, I was once many things, but now I am only several.

Cats never liked to admit to names. Being named might lead to being held responsible for something.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew--- the Secret.

I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like him, all alone.

He who buries a treasure buries himself with it. A secret is a grave, and it is not for nothing that a man who can be trusted with a secret boasts that he is like the grave

Nobody could see the ghost in his box, but everybody could hear him.

There is a terrible mystery around us...a mystery much more to be feared than any number of ghosts or genii!

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball;

My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them

Why you love him! Your fear, your terror, all that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves...

She was closed up like a fist. It her very own memory, not theirs, her very own real and terrible and lonely and dark memory.

Her secrets weren't kept just from other people but also from herself.

We call for night to hide our acts, But Night, a god, gives God the facts.

Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.

Our fellowman either may voluntarily reveal to us the truth about himself, or by dissimulation he may deceive us as to the truth. No other object of knowledge can thus of its own initiative, either enlighten us with reference to itself or conceal itself, as a human being can. No other knowable object modifies its conduct from consideration of its being understood or misunderstood.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

What they think they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows; but what they really think would break up the whole show. Do you suppose it would be really agreeable if I were to come out now with what I really think?

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.