Conceal Quotes

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

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.