Quotes About Concealment

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody could see me.

Behind and byond her looks,her manner, there had been some dark malaise. But nobody ever saw it, back then, he thought. All you saw was her face.

The less you see, the more you can imagine.

Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.

About her husband, i did actually enquire, but she held her private life so fucking tightly, like a tourist clutching a handbag on the A train,..