Conceal Quotes
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Horace
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Confucius
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
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.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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.
Russell Lynes
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
Louis Stokes
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
Rene Magritte
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
James Agate
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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
Karen Allen
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
Anthony Trollope
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman