Quotes About Concealment

Generally, the lie is a denatured truth.Drama occurs when this truth is still nonexistent, and it must become existent for the human being.

Generally, the lie is a denatured truth.Drama occurs when this truth is still nonexistent, and it must become exitent for the human being.

A sober heart conceals, what a drunken mouth reveals, or in your case, a drunken body and lips.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all

The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile.

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies, a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet.

That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

for someone or something that no one will discuss

Take it from me, a secret is a heavy kind of chain.

It was like that with Rosa now. He spent all of his time squelching his thoughts, tamping down his feelings. There was an ache in the hinge of his jaw.

Bosch now recognized it as an action of regret. The killer covered his victim's face so he would no longer have to see it.

We called it the black echo.

aquella operación, los cajones acabaron en una disposición diferente: la correcta. Bosch estaba convencido de que alguien los había sacado todos para registrarlos por debajo y por detrás y luego los había vuelto a colocar en el lugar equivocado. Después

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

Once again, vague terminology helped conceal what was really going on.

It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken.

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

The difference in Billy wasn't what had happened to him, but what hadn't. He had a life he hadn't led, and he knew it. He just hoped nobody else noticed.

There are two ways to be a health officer," he said. "One is to pretend it's not happening.

Secrets are lies by another name.

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.