Quotes About Concealment

I'll tell you one thing you didn't learn from him: talking the way you're talking now. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.

Santino, never let anyone outside the Family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails.

Una cosa no has aprendido de él, Mike: a hablar de la forma en que lo estás haciendo. Hay cosas que deben hacerse y se hacen, pero nunca se habla de ellas. Uno no trata de justificarlas; no pueden ser justificadas. Se hacen, simplemente. Y luego se olvidan.

Usted me odia y no puede disimularlo, dijo Roger Casement. El sheriff, después de un momento de sorpresa, asintió, con una mueca que por un instante descompuso su cara abotargada

En las casi 4 semanas que pasó allá, negociando el alquiler del Henry Reed, obtuvo muchas informaciones, pero, siempre, con la sensación de que nadie llegaba al fondo de las cosas, que incluso las gentes mejor intencionadas le ocultaban algo y se lo ocultaban a sí mismos, temerosos de enfrentar una verdad terrible y acusadora

La literatura es puro artificio, pero la gran literatura consigue disimularlo y la mediocre lo delata.

In fact the whole of two-faced society paid only lip service to the ten commandments and committed adultery, stole, and cheated at cards, because, after all, it was only the eleventh commandment that mattered—Thou Shalt Not Get Found Out.

I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things

Love can't cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

But sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don't really know we are sad. So we say we aren't sad. But really we are.

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we really don't know we are sad. So we say we aren't sad.But we really are.

Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding.

Appearance is never not, at some level, artifice.

When one of his Hasids complained of God's hiddenness, Rabbi Pinhas said, "It ceases to be a hiding, if you know it is hiding." But it does not cease to hide, not ever, not under any circumstance, for anyone.

after which he followed up with the style of "Stealing Peaches beneath the Leaves

Some very wealthy people gain significance by hiding their wealth.

Far from starting with the premise that the authorities tell the truth, a depressingly large number of people now accept as a given that the government constantly lies. If it does not actively lie, many are persuaded, it conceals the truth.

He had a pride in being a poor man of a high family; he had a pride in repudiating the very family of which he was proud; and he had a special pride in keeping his pride silently to himself.

In the drawer of the old piece of furniture which stood just at the right hand of his own arm-chair there were various books hidden away, which he was sometimes ashamed to have seen by his clients, — poetry and novels and even fairy tales. For there was nothing Mr. Wharton could not read in his chambers, though there was nothing that he could read in his own house.

He did not want headlines round the world proclaiming that a ship called 'Germany' had been sunk.

Every Reason to Lie