Quotes About Concealment

Every philosophy is a façade-philosophy' – such is the hermit's judgement … Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hiding-place; every word is also a mask. (Beyond Good and Evil, 289)

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

tacito mala vota susiro concipimus" -- Lucan v 94 With silent whisperings we, For ill things supplicants be.

She smiled at him as if butter wouldn't melt

a tongue blistered with smiling

they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them.

Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.

a witness is defined through what he sees, not what he says. And just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

If you hid long enough, a ghost among men, you might disappear forever without anyone noticing. It's human nature to ensure that someone has seen the mark you left behind.

Only the liar knows that he's lying.

Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.

You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.

It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down.

It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.

You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.

How incredibly easy it is to hide behind white skin, I think, looking at these probable supremacists. The benefit of the doubt is in your favor. You're not suspicious.

It is very hard to believe you when I'm trying so hard to pretend it never happened.

Invisibility, actually, was something he was pretty good at. He'd perfected it over the past twelve years.

It is amazing, I realize, how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

It is such a heady rush to be the object of someone's attention in a good way, not as a freak, that I keep forgetting to hide.

Jos plaukai dabar yra ilgesni, o abipus jos burnos matyti dvi plonos rauksles, tarytum kliausteliai, gaubiantys milijona zodziu, kuriu as neturejau galimybes isgirsti.

The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

You can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.