Quotes About Concealment

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.

you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My

Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to one's self and the walls—walls have ears but no tongue;

a man, with his face half-covered by a black beard, and who, concealed behind the sentry-box, watched the scene with delight, uttered these words in a low tone: Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

sun, he thought he saw the barrel of a musket glitter from behind a hedge. D'Artagnan had a quick eye and a prompt understanding. He comprehended that the musket had not come there of itself, and that he who bore it had not concealed himself behind a hedge with any friendly intentions. He

being able to conceal from himself the ridiculous appearance that such a steed gave him, good horseman as he was. He had sighed deeply, therefore, when accepting

Es propio de los espíritus débiles el ver todas las cosas a través de un velo. El alma se forma a sí misma sus horizontes. Vuestra alma es sombría, y os presenta un cielo borrascoso.

D'Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table.

les murailles ont des oreilles, mais elles n'ont pas de langue ;

I've worn that mask so long I don't feel safe without it.

Conceal your wounds when you have any; silence is the last joy of the unhappy. Beware of giving anyone the clue to your griefs; the curious suck our tears as flies suck the blood of a wounded hart.

Be grateful you're not a peeper, sir. Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses … Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you're not careful. They can eat you alive.