Quotes About Concealment

Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

Things you did at night could be pretty embarrassing in the light of day.

Will became a bush under a bush, a shadow among shadows, with two starlight rounds of glass, his eyes, holding the image of Jim calling up in a whisper toward the second floor windows (Bradbury 90). This quote shows that Will hid behind the bush so well that no one can see him, that he became a shadow among shadows. The phrase shadow among shadows is to show that no one can see him, he is a shadow in a shadow

Everyone thinks that. It's one of those little secrets we keep from each other. Show me a serious man and I'll show you a man who has never wept. Show me a madman and I'll show you a man who dried his tears a long time ago. Go ahead." "I

Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin.

went to the Rock to hide my face                 And the Rock cried out, "No Hiding Place,                 There's no Hiding Place down here.

Si esconde usted su ignorancia, nadie le atacará y nunca llegará a aprender.

Si vous cachez votre ignorance, vous ne recevrez pas de coups et vous n'apprendrez rien.

They had been hiding out, waiting, given shelter by my intuitive self, all these years.

You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a house built, hide the nails and wood.

Montag sentiu que o livro eu escondera batia como um outro coração contra o seu peito.

He sealed the utterance with that smile of his, as though it had been a door opening into a darkness he had in his keeping.

The epigrammatic saying that speech has been given to us for the purpose of concealing our thoughts came into his mind.

The truth travels over the earth secretly; it seeks a nest among the people. To the authorities it's like a knife in the fire. They cannot accept it. It will cut them and burn them. Truth is your good friend and a sworn enemy of the authorities — that's why it hides itself.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. —JOSEPH CONRAD

You know, that might be the answer—to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

adamant that Carl never let on that he felt his cover was

Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.

such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.

On the way home Mary Lou said, Some things are so sad you can't say them. But I pretended not to hear.

We see the shadows of things, not the things themselves . . . We are forced to imagine what the writer doesn't reveal.

Secrets have always been easy for me, it's the opposite of secrets that is hard.

I am infatuated with the private life, and with anonymity; perhaps even invisibility.

You learned how if a thing is not spoken of, even those closest to you, who love you, will assume that it doesn't exist.