Conceal Quotes

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended.

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.