Concealment Quotes

Concealment Quote of the day

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding.

Real bullets are for keeps, and concealment is not necessarily good cover.

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Of what is concealed can also be revealed.

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.