Quotes About Concealment

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.

I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love.

Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

Purity is obscurity.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.