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Quotes About Concealment

Her anger was rekindled. 'You see, I keep it to myself, but, oh! it's more than I can stand. Don't say anything, sir; don't say anything , or I'll explode!' He said nothing, and she exploded all the same.
~ Émile Zola
The shrub that half concealed her was a malignant plant, a Madagascan tanghin tree with wide, box-like leaves with whitish stems, whose smallest veins distilled a venomous fluid. At a moment when Louise and Maxime laughed more loudly in the reflected yellow light of the sunset in the little boudoir, Renée, her mind wandering, her mouth dry and parched, took between her lips a sprig of the tanghin tree that was level with her mouth, and sank her teeth into one of its bitter leaves.
~ Émile Zola
Je l'ai dit ailleurs, et je le répète ici : quand on enferme la vérité sous terre, elle s'y amasse, elle y prend une force telle d'explosion, que, le jour où elle éclate, elle fait tout sauter avec elle.
~ Émile Zola
GerçeÄŸi gömmeniz boÅŸuna, topra??n alt?nda yol al?yor; bir gün, her yandan f??k?racak, öç bitkileri olarak aç?lacakt?r.
~ Émile Zola
Understand this! A year ago General Billot and Generals de Boisdeffre and Gonse knew that Dreyfus was innocent, and they have kept this frightful thing to themselves. And these men sleep and have wives and children whom they love!
~ Émile Zola
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
~ Emily Bronte
I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;
~ Emily Bronte
He shall never know how I love him
~ Emily Bronte
She dried her tears, and they did smile To see her cheeks' returning glow; Nor did discern how all the while That full heart throbbed to overflow. With that sweet look and lively tone, And bright eye shining all the day, They could not guess, at midnight lone How she would weep the time away.
~ Emily Bronte
I surveyed the weapon inquisitively. A hideous notion struck me: how powerful I should be possessing such an instrument! I took it from his hand, and touched the blade. He looked astonished at the expression my face assumed during a brief second: it was not horror, it was covetousness. He snatched the pistol back, jealously; shut the knife, and returned it to its concealment.
~ Emily Bronte
Ele ama e odeia, sempre às escondidas, e considera uma espécie de impertinência ser amado ou odiado de volta.
~ Emily Bronte
Me parecía, instintivamente, que su reserva debía proceder de que era enemigo de dejar traslucir sus emociones. Debía de odiar y amar disimulándolo, y seguramente hubiera considerado como un impertinente a quien le amase o le odiase, a su vez.
~ Emily Bronte
you have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them? Your pride cannot blind God! You tempt him to wring them, till he forces a cry of humiliation.
~ Emily Bronte
Poor wretch!' I thought; 'you have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them? Your pride cannot blind God! You tempt him to wring them, till he forces a cry of humiliation.
~ Emily Bronte
Debería de odiar y amar disimulándolo, y seguramente hubiera considerado como un impertinente a quien lo amase o le odiase, a su vez.
~ Emily Bronte
An unfeeling child,'' I thought to myself, 'how lightly she dismisses her old playmate's troubles. I could not have imagined her to be so selfish.'' She lifted a mouthful to her lips; then, set it down again: her cheeks flushed, and the tears gushed over them. She slipped her fork to the floor, and hastily dived under the cloth to conceal her emotion.
~ Emily Bronte
She never had power to conceal her passion, it always set her whole complexion in a blaze.
~ Emily Bronte
Je sais, par instinct, que sa réserve provient d'une aversion pour les étalages de sentiment...Pour les manifestations d'amabilité réciproque. Il aimera, comme il haïra, sans en rien laisser paraître, il regardera comme une sorte d'impertinence l'amour ou la haine qu'il recevra en retour.
~ Emily Bronte
Mama never told me I had a father.
~ Emily Bronte
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
~ Emily Dickinson
A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.
~ Emily Dickinson
You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm a Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? There's a pair of us- don't tell!
~ Emily Dickinson
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -
~ Emily Dickinson