Conceal Quotes

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome

Friendship, True, Thinks

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

Cannot, Means, Himself

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

Men, Silence, Hear

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Means, Talking, Oneself

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire

Men, Thought, Thoughts

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.
Charles Dickens

Nature, Heart, Close

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.
Voltaire

Pleasure, Necessary, Mankind

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen

Woman, She, Knowing

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

Nature, Words, Soul

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

Book, Thoughts, Evidence

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thoughts, Evidence, Concealing

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Able, Act

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Blaise Pascal

Both, Ourselves, Falsehood

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

Mind, Wish, Others

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.
Blaise Pascal

Love, Live, Feeling

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

Love, Power, Long

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

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

Try, False, Fools

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
Horace

Time, Light, Whatever

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Arnold H. Glasow

Knowledge, Ignorance, Harder

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.
Busta Rhymes

Truth, Society, Negative

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

Good, Truth, General

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men, Words, Thoughts

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

Wise, Nothing, Thought

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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason, Step, Innocent

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly

Others, Charming, Total

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian

Art, Perfection

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Publilius Syrus

Wish, Tell, Condition

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
Margaret Sanger

Business, Facts, Diplomats

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.
David Ogilvy

Abstract, Reader, Paintings

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