Quotes About Concealment

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.

Profesorii sunt ?i ei oameni. ?i se tem c? restul lumii va afla c? sunt doar oameni.

when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.

I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable. Failure at this point would destroy him.

Me tornei autorizado a existir apenas onde não sou visto.

Then there was a woman, in her mid-fifties about, who in almost every respect was perfectly normal. But this was the way with these people: in so many respects they were normal, there was just that one thing, that one terrible thing.

She would never cry where her tears might be seen and counted against her.

The extreme form of passionate love is secret love.

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.

A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me.

When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.

When a sensible woman has a serious question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.

Bunlar? okuduktan sonra ba??m? yana çevirip yüreÄŸime saplanan sanc?y? belli etmemek için elimden geleni yapt?m. Onu çok sevdiÄŸimin fark?ndayd?m ama, o ana kadar derecesini bilmediÄŸimi anlam??t?m.

bene vixit qui bene latuit.

Shame is Prides cloke.

Budalal?k, üçkâ??tç?l???n k?l?f?d?r. Utanç, Gururun k?l?f?d?r.

people lead their real, most interesting lives under cover of secrecy

Mr Lysander Rief looks like someone who is far more at ease occupying the cold security of the dark; a man happier with the dubious comfort of the shadows.