Conceal Quotes

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.

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.