Quotes About Concealment

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

There's daggers in men's smiles.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man