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Quotes About Concealment

Pero el secreto! Vivir sin conocer el secreto del pasado... No saber quién fue, qué fue lo que fue... Resignarse así a ignorar... No tener la solución...
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Muchas veces se me ha ocurrido pensar, Orfeo, que yo no soy, e iba por la calle antojándoseme que los demás no me veían. Y otras veces he fantaseado que no me veían como me veía yo, y que mientras yo me creía ir formalmente, con toda compostura, estaba, sin saberlo, haciendo el payaso, y los demás riéndose y burlándose de mí.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Nada disto tu viste, nada te contei, nada é teu.
~ Unknown
Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.
~ Mike Carey
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
~ Mike McCready
The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
How easily language makes one remember something that that language neither says nor wants to say and that would never occur to you, no matter what you are told.
~ Milorad Pavi?
he was the clean wrapper for a filthy deed.
~ Min Jin Lee
And Mary preserve our mistresses from seeing us as we see ourselves.
~ Mina Loy
I laughed because, as everyone knows, laughing is a great way to disguise heavy breathing.
~ Mindy Kaling
We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.
~ Unknown
I know you're picturing gold candlesticks and infinity pools, but this place they made isn't decadent, no, it's rustic in the way only a rich person's place can be, with money flowing under it invisibly, so that they get to pretend they're just like the rest of us.
~ Unknown
If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.
~ Miranda July
The public scandal is what brings offence, And secret sinning is not sin at all.
~ Moliere
Le scandale du monde, est ce qui fait l'offense; Et ce n'est pas pécher, que pécher en silence.
~ Moliere
PHILINTE: Il est bien des endroits, où la pleine franchise Deviendrait ridicule, et serait peu permise; Et, parfois, n'en déplaise à votre austère honneur, Il est bon de cacher ce qu'on a dans le cÅ"ur. Serait-il à propos, et de la bienséance, De dire à mille gens tout ce que d'eux, on pense? Et quand on a quelqu'un qu'on hait, ou qui déplaît, Lui doit-on déclarer la chose comme elle est? ALCESTE: Ouy..
~ Moliere
Cl. In short, we ought to be blind throughout this play, and pretend not to see anything in it. Ur. We ought not to see what is not there.
~ Moliere
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
~ Moliere
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
~ Moliere
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
~ Moliere
hermetic world.
~ Unknown
unspoken hangs like smoke in the rooms and corridors of Temple Alice. What is uttered are small asides, loaded with venom:
~ Unknown
As usual, there were no obvious signs. And it would be a secret that my boyfriend had punched me in the face and terrorized me with a rifle for two and half hours - because it was more important that Mom keep up appearances than keep her children safe.
~ Unknown