Quotes About Concealment

HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE.

He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.

There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.

It was all leaving her in slow, imperceptible movements, like the tide when one's back is turned: everyone, everything she had known. So all of grief and happiness, far from being buried with one, vanished beforehand except for scattered pieces. She lived among forgotten episodes, unknown faces bereft of names, closed off from the very world she had created; that was how it came to be. But I must show nothing of that, she thought. Her children---she must not reveal it to them.

The more clearly one sees this world, the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

It didn't work, said the King. The cloak of invisibility didn't work. Yes, it did, said the Royal Wizard. No, it didn't, said the King. I kept bumping into things, the same as ever. The cloak is supposed to make you invisible, said the Royal Wizard. It is not supposed to keep you from bumping into things. All I know is, I kept bumping into things, said the King.

Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle...

It doesn't do anyone any good to live one life and hide another.

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

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin 'freely'- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Varnish and gilding hide many stains.

Where pride and stupidity unite there can be no dissimulation worthy notice

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

Me! returned Elinor in some confusion; indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell. Nor I, answered Marianne with energy, our situations then are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing. (27.17)

No hay nada más engañoso que la apariencia de la humildad. A menudo sólo es carencia de opinión, y a veces una ostentación indirecta.

I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.

These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

and no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of at present.

Such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.

Ninguna de las dos tiene nada que contar; tú porque no comunicas nada, y yo porque nada escondo.

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