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Quotes About Concealment

Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
~ Ovid
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.
~ Robert Jordan
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
~ Herman Melville
A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.
~ John Selden
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
~ Abraham Verghese
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
~ William Butler Yeats
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
What my mother doesnt know wont hurt her
~ Sonya Sones
When your afraid of somethingyou hide behind a mask.It might be to protect yourself, But if you hide long enoughthen you forget who you really are.You must come out.
~ Kris Harte
The more you look, the less you see.
~ J. Daniel Atlas now you see me
There are things better left unknown.matters better left untoldand things better left unsettled.
~ Mark Verndick
We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
~ Jim Morrison
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
~ Douglas Coupland
Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
~ Hugh Laurie
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
~ Cory Doctorow
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
~ Albert Einstein
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
~ Pablo Picasso
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
~ John Rawls
If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.
~ Seth Godin
It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
~ Russell Banks, Trailerpark
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.
~ Midori Snyder
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
~ Friedrich Schiller