Quotes About Concealment

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble often by not asking questions. However it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Do not hide behind any mask

Setting the remains of a freshly erupted volcano, I walk.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

if the emotional person is another man, it is the worst possible catastrophe. The societal fabric has been rent. A man would rather be shot by a firing squad than to break down in front of his fellows, and to witness such a breakdown is almost as bad a breach of decorum as to break down oneself.

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage.

If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. ("The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah")

Shame is pride's cloak.

The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our heats, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you [Mark Twain] won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

All along the avenue, cotton candy stands, fun houses, and games of chance were tightly shuttered, like clowns without makeup.

Oh the secrets of the night.

We all have secrets. With them, we're like squirrels with nuts. We hide them away, and bitter though they may be, we feed on them.

You stuff your own closet full of skeletons and you wonder what kind of bones everyone else has stuffed away.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.