Quotes About Concealment

That was how he felt safest. Revealing nothing.

That there was nothing more assuring than a mask. Under the mask she could rewrite herself into any place, in any form.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.

At least if I keep my love a secret, he and I can still have this wonderful, odd, exciting relationship where I love him in silence and pretend he's loving me in silence too.

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating.

I love dressing up and putting on the makeup and the hair and the clothes and just being a different person for a day. Maybe it's just the idea that you can kind of hide behind it all in a way.

And Sandra, she knew from her experience with the fly spray, was ruthless. "You don't know it." There was triumph in Sandra's voice. "I know something you don't

As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it for twenty-seven years5.

We don't know if he ever left England. We don't know who his principal companions were or how he amused himself. His sexuality is an irreconcilable mystery. On only a handful of days in his life can we say with absolute certainty where he was.

Più che per qualsiasi altro scrittore, in Shakespeare le parole sono separate dalla vita. Era un uomo così bravo a nascondere ciò che provava che non possiamo nemmeno essere sicuri che provasse qualcosa. Sappiamo che usava le parole con enorme efficacia, e possiamo ragionevolmente supporre che avesse dei sentimenti. Quello che non sappiamo, e che possiamo soltanto tirare a indovinare, è dove le due cose si intersecavano.

That's the biggest reason governments keep secrets. Not because they're sensitive. Because the secrets are embarrassing