Quotes About Concealment

Nuns don't lie. We simply train ourselves to forget that which we are not supposed to know.

It didn't matter that he knew there was a serial killer loose in Bradfield. He couldn't afford to be the one to say it first.

Which translated, Stacey thought cynically, to 'If you're going to break the law – what I don't know can't hurt me.

It is certainly possible that some women might have felt ambivalent or embarassed about pregnancy, which could have led them to try to conceal the condition under tight corsets. It is also possible that some women deliberately used tight-lacing in an attempt to abort the fetus.

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.

Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections.

I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou!

We all know the artfulness with which a dropped coin hides itself, and the job we have to find it again. There are thoughts which play the same trick on us, rolling into a buried corner of our minds; and there it is, they've gone forever, we can't put our finger on them.

evil condoned wears the mask of benevolence

Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge.

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

Phantoms do not wear round hats.

flaps and buttons. She concealed her gray hair