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Quotes About Concealment

Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings; and, failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering
~ Louisa May Alcott
I watched him long, and he seemed to be following you as if to guard and yet not be seen himself...
~ Louisa May Alcott
Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
~ Louise Erdrich
Since he was seldom seen, people often wondered about his whereabouts.
~ Ron Chernow
If she suspected wrongdoing, she kept it to herself to spare the children.
~ Ron Chernow
he'd deny it like hell if he ever heard me say it to anyone.
~ Ron Chernow
Of course, Rockefeller's poker face concealed deep rage.
~ Ron Chernow
For all these years no one has known and no one seems to have cared how it came into existence.
~ Ron Chernow
Many people knew that Hamilton, Madison, and Jay were the authors, but the trio proclaimed their authorship to only a chosen few and then mostly after the first bound volume was published in March 1788.
~ Ron Chernow
My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one's personal failures.
~ Ron Rash
To conceal her misgivings, she waved a sultry yellow fan. There was a forest painted upon it of Arden, in indigo, in violet, in sapphire, in turquoise, and in common blue. The fan, by Conder, was known perversely as The Pink Woods.
~ Ronald Firbank
Los monstruos se ocultan en el lóbrego vientre del silencio doméstico.
~ Rosa Montero
Because, once again, our government—and I'm speaking not just of the regional government, but of the planetary one as well—is concealing information. Concealing it, or what would be even worse, it's not aware of it, because we're in the hands of the most incompetent politicians humanity has ever had in its history.
~ Rosa Montero
Nihil Relinquere et Nihil Vestigi. It says 'to leave nothing behind and no trace.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
Deep, dark secrets always hurt to share. That's why we keep them in the deep dark.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
Alala! I have no cloth to wrap me. The kites will see that I am naked. I am ashamed to meet all these people.
~ Rudyard Kipling
When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.
~ Rudyard Kipling
besides, this is much too good to tell all the other brutes in the Coll. They'd never understand. They play cricket, and say, 'Yes sir', and 'Oh, sir', and 'No, sir'.
~ Rudyard Kipling
With the feeling of elation there came to Harriet a feeling of responsibility. She had avowed herself. She had signed herself away. It was public now. She was different. With all the glory, she wished she could have kept herself a secret.
~ Rumer Godden
The only way I could go on living was to believe I was not living.
~ Russell Banks
There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.
~ Russell Hoban
Najgori mogu?i scenario uvek se oblikuje iza zavese, gde niko ne može da ga otkrije niti da ga primeti, i onda jednog dana, bum, to postaje tvoja stvarnost. A kada jednom postane stvarnost, prekasno je da se bilo šta uradi.
~ Ry? Murakami
Hasta los más hábiles hombres caen, e ignominiosa es su caída cuando en bello ropaje ocultan infames palabras para servir a su avaricia.
~ Sófocles
No hagas nada en secreto, porque el tiempo lo ve todo y lo oye todo, y lo revela todo.
~ Sófocles