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Quotes About Concealment

We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up.
~ Irvine Welsh
some shadowy haven back in
~ Irwin Shaw
La forma más fácil de solucionar un problema es negar su existencia.
~ Isaac Asimov
The mistiness of distance hides the truth
~ Isaac Asimov
it would be harmful to humanity to have the explanation known, and that's why we can only guess
~ Isaac Asimov
I planned killing Mis before he could talk. I planned it secretly—as secretly as I could—so secretly I didn't dare tell it to myself.
~ Isaac Asimov
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
~ Isabel Allende
the capital city had grown in alarming fashion: cardboard walls, tin roofs, people in rags clearly visible along the road from the airport. Since this made a very bad impression on visitors, for a long time the solution was to put up walls to hide them. As one politician said, 'Where there is poverty, hide it.
~ Isabel Allende
Non si può trovare chi non vuole essere trovato.
~ Isabel Allende
Una cortina de tinieblas oculta el mundo fantástico donde antes me paseaba libremente.
~ Isabel Allende
la peor pobreza es la de cuello y corbata, porque hay que disimularla
~ Isabel Allende
pero ese tema era tabú en aquellos tiempos de hipocresía colectiva.
~ Isabel Allende
The best actors do not let the wheels show.
~ Henry Fonda
Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.
~ Baltasar Gracian
A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
~ Anais Nin
I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
~ Jean Kerr
Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.
~ Ben Jonson
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
~ Cyril Connolly
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
~ Homer
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
~ Lord Chesterfield
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
~ Matthew
Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?
~ William Lyon Phelps