Conceal Quotes

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

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.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.