Quotes About Concealment

He installed a mirror outside his study window so he could see guests coming up the drive before they saw him, allowing him time to brace himself or to hide.

to present a relatively placid, untroubled appearance to others, while suffering extreme distress on the inside."c

I smile gently while churning inside and thinking about what I've learned is a signature characteristic of the phobic personality: "the need and ability"—as described in the self-help book Your Phobia—"to present a relatively placid, untroubled appearance to others, while suffering extreme distress on the inside."c

O hide me, hide me from myself

The one time of year when everyone wears a mask... not just me.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

We spend too much time hiding illness.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

There was a secret somewhere, but madness was not the key to it.

Nobody could infer the master-mind in the top of that edifice from the edifice itself.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie—the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

Las personas son como la luna. Siempre tienen un lado oscuro que no enseñan a nadie. Mark Twain

I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our heats, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.

Among other common lies, we have the _silent_ lie--the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they _speak_ no lie, they lie not at all.