Concealment Quotes
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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
— George Eliot
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
— William Shakespeare
It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.
— Idries Shah
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
— Seneca The Younger
A blank, my lord. She never told her love, 110 But let concealment, like a worm i'the bud, Feed on her damask cheek.
— William Shakespeare
Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.
— Charles M. Blow
He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity - the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
— Jane Austen
If concealment is the single weapon, then a villain is never a villain; one smiles to the very end.
— Truman Capote
The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.
— Peter Watts
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
— Horace
A fault is fostered by concealment.
— Virgil
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
— Criss Jami
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
— Wendell Phillips
Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The act of concealment had become more powerful than what it concealed.
— G. Willow Wilson
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
— Kate Adie
Of what is concealed can also be revealed.
— Pushpa Rana
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
— Marlon Riggs
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
— Criss Jami
It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment
that explodes in poetry. — Adrienne Rich
that explodes in poetry. — Adrienne Rich
She had a new feeling, the feeling of danger; on which a new remedy rose to meet it, the idea of an inner self or, in other words, of concealment.
— Henry James
Concealment is the foe of tranquility.
— Fanny Burney
Live in concealment in order that you may live to yourself. Live ignorant of that which seems to your age to be most important!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.
— J.C. Ryle
Concealment, my dear Maria, is the foe of tranquility: however I may err in future, I will never be disingenuous in acknowledging my errors. To
— Fanny Burney
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
— Seneca The Younger
Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
— Sallust
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [ ... ] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
— Iris Murdoch
The power of uncovering India's biggest concealment is in your hands.
— Sambhav Ratnakar
For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.
— Epicurus
Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.
— Andrew Crofts
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
— Mark Twain
You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.
— Frank Herbert
The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
— John Burroughs
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it. — Alasdair Gray