Quotes About Concealment

They looked around with drained faces and drank less than their friends did, barely wetting their lips so as to keep their secrets.

She wants to know how it feels to be absolutely sure that you haven't done anything wrong. She's not intimidated either—she doesn't believe for a second that these people aren't tryhards just like her. They're tryhards who succeed, that's all. Their striving is never past tense; it's merely concealed.

She thought I hadn't seen her, but she's no good at hiding her intentions. She can't help tiptoeing around with a finger to her lips at key moments.

Now that you are a big girl, you must always be more careful and not show those feelings', Alexandra reiterated. 'One must not let others see what one feels inside.'15

But she had learned that it was smart not to reveal that all her senses were in full working order; instead, she allowed people to act in accordance with their own preconceptions. This was often a useful source of information, and Maud could form her own opinion of the person and the situation.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.

Qui cache son fou, meurt sans voix

He who hides his madman dies voiceless.

Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secret service from the start ....

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues

It is telling that in the Dictionary he offers under 'bristly' this heavily edited quotation from the brilliant but erratic classicist Richard Bentley: 'If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset with rugged scales and bristly hairs.

Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

You hide your fear and call it something else You're addicted to all the things that make you weak

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love.

Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all.

But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.

It was one of those things that one knows but cannot even tell oneself - so dreadful and shameful it would be to be mistaken.

Each of us has his skeletons in his soul, as the English say.

Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.

Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say.