Quotes About Concealment

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that "decent drapery" which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; accordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

The nerves are still there. I might just do a better job at hiding them.

I don't really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It's all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

If people felt that they were misled with 'It Comes at Night,' they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we're not hiding what isn't there: we're hiding what is there.

Those memories were mine and mine alone, for I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid

There are some people in the world, and the reason they're not in jail is because they've learned how to hide it.

When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. I was the only guy at the bar with a bullet in their guts. I kept putting my hand under my jacket, on my stomach and all, to keep the blood from dripping all over the place. I didn't want anybody to know I was even wounded. I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch….

When your lover visits to discuss the illegitimate child you kept a secret from him, offer him a glass of wine… The one that most definitely not been in the dowager duchess's handbook.

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

Luchaba contra su tristeza pero trataba de ocultarlo, de dividirla en trozos cada vez más pequeños para poder esparcirlos donde creía que nadie iba a encontrarlos. Sin embargo, yo me los encontraba a menudo —con el tiempo, aprendí dónde mirar— e intentaba que encarajaran entre sí.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss }

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

everything that is deep loves the mask

Después de todo, ¿qué es una mentira? No es sino la verdad enmascarada», escribió Byron.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. What are you thinking? About bombs, she answered blandly, deadly camoflaged bombs. She gave him a quick,innocent grin. Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving.

Now if you tell me there were six other naked women and three attendants hanging around who saw you shove her into the locker,i'll have to kill you. There was nobody else there.We're not idiots.she grimaced. I know you think we are, but we're not stupid enough to have done it in front of witnesses. Actually, we timed it that way so she'd be stuck in there longer. she smiled weakly. it seemed like a good idea at the time.

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