Quotes About Concealment

Beauty hides a multitude of sins, but underneath we are all the same.

Humor explained is humor denied

Shame is pride's cloak.

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

I've learned the best way to prevent your heart from getting broken, is to act like you don't have one.

Ben hid a wince behind his hand, trying very hard not to think of seventy-year-old Ellie Verstgard rolling around with Mr. Wenner. Despite his best resistance, the image scrolled across his brain and took some of his love for the world with it.

But, like superheroes, they would not want to keep themselves a secret for long. How could you be a superhero if no one knew you existed?

And even if we are inscrutable, what does that make white people? Are white people ever referred to as inscrutable? No, you would say that a white person who is hard to read has a poker face, which has a positive connotation, a strategic one, suggesting a careful withholding of information, whereas we are just inscrutable because you white people believe that we always have something to hide

A person is not ready to know if he knows that you know it.

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thoughts.

The only truth about shadows is that you can't see them in the dark.

We all want to be great, but we don't want people to know we want to be great.

Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as sissies if someone finds out they write poetry or own a painting. They're so timid about culture.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

can you tell what goes on within by looking at what happens without? There may be a great fire in your soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself by it, all that passers-by can see is a little smoke coming out of the chimney and they walk on"_Page.70-71

Veiling truth in mystery.

Seems that folks who try to hide it the most end up judging the most. Guess they figure if they judge other people's garbage it makes their own not quite so dirty.

No habla con nadie. Solo se arrastra bajo los golpes que le propina su novio, por la noche y a escondidas. Para todos los demás, es majestuosa.

I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret.

A woman can keep one secret - the secret of her age

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Conspiracy theories are, like horror, tales of how the worst thing you imagine is true. "You think things are bad? Well, let me tell you, buddy, you don't know the half of it.