Quotes About Concealment

For the little season that a woman's beauty is in flower it serves her admirably well in the dissimulation to which her natural weakness and our social laws condemn her.

Just as Clara Gazul is the female pseudonym of a distinguished male writer, George Sand the masculine pseudonym of a woman of genius, so Camille Maupin was the mask behind which was long hidden a charming young woman, very well-born, a Breton, named Felicite des Touches, the person who was now causing such lively anxiety to the Baronne du Guenic and the excellent rector of Guerande.

Often the good saint sat mutely by and listened to the hatred of men who concealed themselves under the cloak of constitutional royalists. She shuddered as she foresaw the ruin of the Church.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Huizen werden tot het Stille Volk gerekend. Muren hebben oren, maar geen tong. Huizen, bomen en doden zwijgen als het graf.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Marion fought back the urge to shove the candle in his face and did her best to broaden her smile...

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too,before others quite reasonably, and it looks as tho I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.

If she had only known, things might have been different between us, but I could never talk to her about it" [Jimmy about Molly]

I never told anybody what was going on. Not a soul.

it is technically a Category Two SoulCrime to remove or conceal a Ministry of Pain–assigned famulus from your immediate person.

it is technically a Category Two SoulCrime to remove or conceal a Ministry of Pain–assigned famulus from your immediate person." Lightning flared again as, muttering and mouthing, Benji Dog was stuffed back into Courtney Hall's bag.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

There's nothing more satisfying than making someplace look like someplace else and nobody knows the difference.

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.

The thief who has not been caught is a king.

Whoever might perfume a scorpion Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband

Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

Hazrat Ali, en un dicho que se le atribuye, dice: "El hombre está disfrazado, cubierto por su lengua

El ladrón que no ha sido atrapado es un rey.

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

PEOPLE Kick them -- they'll forgive you. Flatter them -- they may or may not see through you. But ignore, them, and they'll hate you, even if they conceal it until they die.