Quotes About Concealment

And if I may give you a piece of advice: a clever woman succeeds in concealing her jealousy. Otherwise we men always feel so sure of ourselves.…

Sieh an', sagte er und lächelte. 'Ein Zimmermädchen in einem Schrank.

While anonymity can be used to protect heroes, it is far more commonly used as a way to escape responsibility.

He lowered the blinds too, enough to give him cover should one of Brabham's people choose to look out of the window. And then he settled in for the wait.

I knew that if I asked, a hairbrush would appear, a toothbrush and four different kinds of toothpaste, but I tried to pretend I was self-sufficient. A lot of times when I think I'm being self-sufficient, I'm really just learning to live without the things that I need.

From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world.

Sometimes you took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.

My imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it's hard to summon it when you really need it.

We explain the unattractive by pretending it is esoteric.

Nobody in Pixie Hollow has seen her.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

Maskenfreiheit. It means "the freedom conferred by masks.

Instinctively she knew that talking, talking, talking kept people from probing, probing, probing. The more she seemed to reveal about herself, the more she could hide, and still appear to be open and forthcoming.

Sei por experiência que se deve evitar descobrir quem deseja manter-se escondido.

her true name is never spoken aloud.

We can't have all these people seeing that thing on your wrist, can we?

She wouldn't have understood how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes.

As soon as man was capable of conceiving of the idea of sin, he had recourse to psychic concealment.

from within their thicket of nowhere left to hide

Is there no saving what betrays itself?

What likely dazzled the Ambassador even more than her sophisticated facade was his sense that she was covertly angling toward something greater. "It's not what you are that counts," he famously declared, "but what people think you are.

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

lema epicúreo: láthe biósas, «oculta tu vivir» o «vive sin ser notado».