Quotes About Concealment

You never can tell From a Minnipin's hide What color he is Down deep inside.

Michele didn't think she was allowed to cry on center stage—or scream which she thought about as Ormond handed her the ugly head.

Everyone hides something. There's no such thing as a totally transparent person in this whole world

What ever you do-Don't get caught.

the story of Métis people choose to not speak openly about their ancestry may be the most common thread in Métis stories. (p. 32)

My mother says that I have a knack for remembering what others forget. Sometimes it's a curse; nobody likes it when there's somebody to remember what they've tried so hard to bury.

The fear was there; it was there all the time, but it was merely disguised as something else for others to see.

You can't know everything by looking at me. You can never know by looking at someone.

They hide well, these rational-thinking concerned people.

She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they're thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they'd just accuse you of being paranoid.

Is he aware of both—and unaware? Can the mind ride two such separate tracks simultaneously? Concealed ambivalence. Hidden ambiguity. Are we so flawed that we can never truly know our own most secret motives?

To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

I am a bit of a lad but don't tell: it will ruin my image!

O'Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.

I can pass as a lot of things: people meet me and don't think I'm gay and speak about gay people in a certain way or they don't know I'm Middle Eastern and do the same.

I don't always feel like a million dollars, but I try not to let anybody know.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret.

The Buddha said, "When conditions are sufficient, the thing manifests, and when they are not sufficient, the thing remains hidden.

You could see the skeleton behind the man, and almost the ghost behind the skeleton.

Suddenly she aroused herself and exclaimed, But I'll shake it off. Yes, I will shake it off! No one shall know my suffering. I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay, and I'll laugh in derision! - Eustacia Vye

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing.

Nella difettosa esecuzione del piano ben disposto dell'universo raramente l'invito provoca l'arrivo di chi si invoca; raramente si incontra l'uomo da amare, quando viene l'ora per l'amore. La natura non dice troppo spesso guarda alla povera creatura nel momento in cui il guardare potrebbe portare a una lieta conclusione, nè risponde qui alla carne che grida dove?; finché tutto questo nascondersi e cercarsi diventa un gioco penoso senza mordente.