Quotes About Concealment

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.

Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.

I think women hide behind their hair.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.

Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.

It's the angle. You can't see me from where you're standing.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent most of my adolescence attempting to keep it a secret from those who might use it as a source of derision. The off-brown collared shirt and forest-green sash were not something I would have ever been caught wearing in front of my friends.

Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

As an audience member, everyone I talk to is like, 'I'm so excited to see 'Super 8.' I'm so excited to see it.' And part of that is because of his drive to make sure that it stays hidden until the last minute.

attempts to maintain aristocratic entitlement through "mystification and concealment," as an 1835 newspaper put it.

A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves.

Reality has a way of summoning the shadows," I tell him. Fareem laughs his worldly laugh. "Is that the

And all her shining keys will be took from her, and her cupboards opened, and little things 'a didn't wish seen, anybody will see; and her wishes and ways will be as nothing!

Truth bends abashed, and answers not.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.