Quotes About Concealment

We have neither of us any thing to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing.

How much I shall have to tell! Elizabeth added privately, And how much I shall have to conceal!

These matters are always a secret, till it is found out that every body knows them.

This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.

She dressed to look good, and I dressed for obscurity.

She gestured to the bag. What have you got in there? Nothing much. Some golfballs, a handful of tees, a Glock, extra ammo, two hand grenades, a tear gas canister, a knife, Tums, clean socks, flares, and some Ensure chocolate shakes. You took all of that with you to play golf?

All my adult life I've hidden behind mascara. And if I'm really insecure, I add eyeliner. (Stephanie, Chapter 10)

The law is for people who have nothing to hide.

It means that he looks like my boyfriend, but I don't say it out loud.

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

Nobody ever complained? Girls were kind. No one ever told him, I could barely stay awake. If only you'd come faster, I could have ignored it altogether. Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face, on a November day in the rain.

Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

He just didn't want to see how damaged she was. As long as she didn't show him, that was all he asked for. A good show.

But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger. They

They'd retreated to the country with two passports only. From the outside it looked like death. People could pound the walls all they wanted, but they'd never find the door. Nobody could guess at the gardens inside.

Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.

Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of information, and punishing anyone who stands in the way. But, at least theoretically speaking, it is the job of journalists to impede that effort, not to serve and enable it.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.