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Tag Name "Conceal" (231)

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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Martial
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Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.
Eli Siegel
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Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.
William Shakespeare
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Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.
Margaret Atwood
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
Jean Giraudoux
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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
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I try to conceal art with art.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
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The humorous story is told gravely the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
Mark Twain
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Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.
Jesse Helms
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
Mark Twain
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And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).
Joanna Russ
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Mason Cooley
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What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?
John Grier Hibben
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I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
Matthew Arnold
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Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.
John Paul Caponigro
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Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
Michael Bassey
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Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
Josef von Sternberg
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The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
Montgomery Clift
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Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
Joseph Addison
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She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.
Nicole Krauss
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A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.
Julien Torma
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The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
Ogden Nash
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The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Karl Marx
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