Quotes About Concealment

Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

I served everyone automatically, keeping a big smile on my face, but inside I felt like a jar lid that's been twisted on too tight.

Words are but the shining garments of Thought.

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said

Never mind what my name is," the man said. "No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

The passageway was still as dark as a bar of extra-dark chocolate sitting in a planetarium covered in a thick, black blanket

A short woman might be difficult to see on a crowded city street, particularly if she has disguised herself as a mailbox, and people keep putting letters in her mouth.

Perhaps you are one of us too, investigating your life and thinking about the world, always feeling native to nowhere. We put on disguises sometimes, to pose as people we are not, to hide, or to blend in, or just to see what will happen, hoping that our secrets will never be found out.

But there are things that are difficult to see not because of the size of their surroundings, or a clever disguise, or a treacherous person with a book of matches in his pocket and a fiendish plot in his brain, but because the things are so upsetting to look at, so distressing to believe, that it is as if your eyes refuse to see what is right in front of them.

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them, so they will not be embarrassed.

Don't explain,' I said. 'Leave me something to be mystified about.

For fear is so unwelcome that it comes only in disguise, and guilt is its favourite one.

I put the gun and the scarf into the brown paper bag again. And I locked it into the desk where I kept unpaid bills, Fiona's jewellery and letters from the bank about my overdraft.

False. Everything by which you have lived and live now is all a deception, a lie, concealing both life and death from you.

Because if I'm right about this guy, he's getting better and better at killing. And nobody even knows he exists.

You must create a plan that highlights your strengths and hides your flaws.

The truth had always been far too dangerous for the public to know. The truth didn't usually set people free, it just got them crazier. Most people just couldn't handle the truth.

Never let them see your first reaction. Don't let them know what you think until you want them to know what you think.