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Quotes About Concealment

Who (people from her other life) didn't know how much work it could be to make people think you you were normal.
~ April Henry
When shall men learn to never touch what has been hidden.
~ Arnold Arre
This place is a regular whispering-gallery.
~ Arnold Bennett
He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity—the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It was secret that with greatest determination , was very hard to conceal - for it affected one's attitude, one's voice ,one's total outlook on the universe
~ Arthur C. Clarke
people will panic. Riots, looting. You'll see. That's why we keep secrets, Ms. Duflot. Because people can't handle the truth.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Holmes: I followed you. Sterndale: I saw no one. Holmes: That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
have from all quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask. "This is indeed a mystery
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
These were encrypted. They'll think they're absolutely safe. (Andre) 'Yeah, and he was three feet tall and green.' (Steele)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
We never see the signs we don't want to see.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
One thing I still remembered from my war days was how to move in shrubbery.
~ Sherwood Smith
You really think there's something back there? Something we don't know here? Jacob's
~ Shirley Hailstock
Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.
~ Shirley Jackson
The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward--that's why they've been give bodies, to hide their souls.
~ Shirley Jackson
I will not put a name to what has no name
~ Shirley Jackson
She forced herself to sit up primly on the edge of the marble bench, repressing firmly the nausea she felt at its warm pressure, and she smoothed the black linen of her dress across her lap, and tucked in her hair, which had somehow come loose, and crossed her ankles decently, and took her black-edged handkerchief from her bosom and dried her eyes and wiped away the dampness and grime from her face. Now, she thought; I may go mad, but at least I look like a lady.
~ Shirley Jackson
I will not put a name to what has none.
~ Shirley Jackson
It was a grief about which you could not, must not, dare not speak.
~ Sholem Aleichem
She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Old money's motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money's motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.
~ Sidney Sheldon
When you're trying to hide something,' Paul Martin advised, 'always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you're doing anything wrong.
~ Sidney Sheldon