Quotes About Concealment

I shouldn't think I'll have the slightest problem playing a man," she said. "I shall merely remember to rearrange my breeches in front at least once an hour, thereby drawing attention to the padding I carefully placed there in the morning, and I'll blend in perfectly.

Didn't it say it all that Griffin couldn't make it to his own bloody front door without a cane? For all his was mahogany topped with a dull ruby, and hid in its innards a vicious blade, in the end it was an old man's stick.

No wonder women wore layers of clothing. They had so much beauty to hide.

Senti. Non mi va di vedere Procida mentre s'allontana, e si confonde, diventa come una cosa grigia...Preferisco fingere che non sia esistita. Perciò, fino al momento che non se ne vede più niente, sarà meglio ch'io non guardi là.

The obvious difference between Paul and us is that Paul bragged about his weakness, and we try to hide it.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

Mystery — a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are.

To deliver blows none of which land, to attack everyone without anyone's noticing, to shoot arrows whose poison you alone receive!

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.

Last time we went to the Ferryboat, I looked around at the families of upmarket beachgoers, at their healthy children expertly peeling prawns and drinking organic lemonade, and I tried to tell myself that everyone has sadnesses, that some of the adults would be hideously miserable in their marriages, that people would be having affairs and drinking too much and addicted to gambling, that lives would be on the verge of falling apart, families breaking up, businesses going bankrupt.

It is lonely, being an evil alien in disguise.

The thought beneath so slight a film—Is more distinctly seen—As laces just reveal the surge—Or Mists—the Apennine—

I'm Nobody! Who are you?Are you—Nobody—too?Then there's a pair of us!Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!How dreary—to be—Somebody!How public—like a Frog—To tell one's name—the livelong June—To an admiring Bog!

The world knows what you seem; it does not know what you are.

The suit was a disguise, which I had put on for the first time in six months, after stuffing my torn leather jacket and denims into a dustbin.

Black is a very sentimental colour. You can hide any rubbish behind it.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

She worshiped her children. They were so young that she could hide the disorders of her life from their eyes, and could win their love.

Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that in it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.

Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can.

For what remains veiled in one era comes back, as a ghost, to haunt us in another.