Quotes About Concealment

In other words, the case, almost from the beginning, was more about covering up mistakes and protecting the careers of powerful people than in finding the truth about who killed Meredith Kercher.

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Whatever the image of yourself, it's a mask and it's hiding emptiness.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

Ulick Norman Owen—Una Nancy Owen—each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!

Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.

Because, you see, if the man were an invention—a fabrication—how much easier to make him disappear!

Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

You know I want you. You know that I'd give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever.

A secret de Polichinelle is a secret that everyone can know. For this reason the people who do not know it never hear about it - for if everyone thinks you know a thing, nobody tells you.

I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever notices anything anywhere!

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

I neither see nor comprehend. You make all these confounded mysteries, and it's useless asking you to explain. You always like keeping something up your sleeve to the last minute.

The family would come under suspicion," he said, "and it might remain under suspicion for a long time—perhaps for ever. If one of the family was guilty it is possible that they themselves would not know which one. They would look at each other and—wonder … Yes, that's what would be the worst of all. They themselves would not know which…

Pride comes in handy for masking one's feelings?it doesn't stop you from feeling them

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.