Quotes About Concealment

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons.

As crimes pile up, they become invisible.

Facades were heavy armor in the end. They might protect you, but they took a great deal of strength to lug around.

I never feel that the things I tell Mrs. Monday are lies. I think that lies are only when you want not to tell the truth. With Mrs. Monday I want to tell the truth but life is easier if I don't.

What are you doing in a fancy Yankee uniform?" Sally Ann asked. Rhine didn't reply. As the silence lengthened, she offered a bitter chuckle. "Passing again, are you?" Rhine's ivory skin, jet black hair, and green eyes made it easy for him to pass as someone he wasn't. He was ten years old when he first realized he could do it successfully.

Once word got out about who he really was, he was sure Wally was going to be ecstatic over never having to publicly acknowledge him again.

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.

He was who he was; it was how he thought about himself. He was the man with the secret that nobody could ever get to. You guys look at me and you see nothing- this is how he thought; you see a small and dirty man who doesn't amount to anything, but I know that I can do things and I have done things that you cannot imagine. I am the very Monster of whom you live in terror- and you have no idea that it is Me.

secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of

secretly chain-smokes filtered cigarettes

The fact of the matter is that hundreds of SS officials are now in the United States, with some even working for the CIA. This is a truth that must never be revealed.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

We all have our shortcomings, it seems, though some are less visible than others.

Her head had turned away quickly as she stepped down, not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

I know Oz, now, she said, and in the carving of the lintel she found that common ideogram, a Z circled with an O. Usually letters don't hide inside each other, she told Glinda firmly. No, that's true. In Oz, I suppose, something is always hiding...

Regret could disguise itself in a thousand veils, you could perish before having the strength to drag the last one away.