Quotes About Concealment

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

I've been in love and you'll never know

Words are clothes that thoughts wear

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Inside the Mouse, surprise opened like a wound over the inevitable.

There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Name is a fence and within it you are nameless.

She could hide in this small, dull life.

Under the guise of being a showpiece for the world where prosperity is as easily found as water in a stream, America, for all her ostensible beauty, has an ugly scar across her belly that she has tried repeatedly to suppress and keep hidden from curious onlookers. More than a few times she has almost been exposed, and this ugliness brought to light, but always another garment would quickly be thrown over the rough spot and all the turmoil and ugliness again blanketed. But not this time.

kukirim padamu beberapa patah kata yang sudah langka – jika suatu hari nanti mereka mencapaimu, rahasiakan, sia-sia aja memahamiku

Generally people believed that an abandoned child was illegitimate and that the mother had put it away from her to hide an inexcusable moral

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

I learned it's easier not to say anything at all. You mention something, even a throwaway comment, and it draws attention. People want to know more. It was easier to never mention it in the first place.

the only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all...

when I hide something, it stays hid, until I want it found.

But here's the thing about seeing and knowing everything—sometimes ignorance is safer.

Mai fidarsi di una bella ragazza se nasconde un orribile segreto.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." -Benjamin Franklin.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, and contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves." —BLAISE PASCAL

Anybody's who's that obsessed with solving someone's murder obviously has something to hide.