Quotes About Concealment

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

It's almost like putting on a mask protects you from people's judgments and lets you completely flow freely, like, with all your aggression and our animosity against anything.

I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.

I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!

have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason which he is anxious to conceal.

After all, he reflected, his whole uniform was a disguise, his whole new calling a masquerade.

I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want you to know. I don't want any one to know.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.

At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain - as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.

They proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.

The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something--most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning--

Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in the horizon.

I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want anyone to know.

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want to see (Nicole to Dick).

He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxord,' or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before.

Mountain-climbing cars are built on a slant similar to the angle of a hat-brim of a man who doesn't want to be recognized.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing," he said. "Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

He felt so intensely about people that in moments of apathy he preferred to remain concealed; that one could parade a casualness into his presence was a challenge to the key on which he lived

and no one ever _know_ that you were

The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption—and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them good-by.

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blase sophistication.