X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Conceal" (232)

Page 2 of 10
Filter & Style
Image
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
Aeschylus
Image
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
Image
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
Brennan Manning
Image
I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
William Saroyan
Image
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
Lucretius
Image
From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.
Basil Hume
Image
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George du Maurier
Image
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!
Pierre Corneille
Image
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
Horace Greeley
Image
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
George Horace Lorimer
Image
It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
Heraclitus
Image
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
Image
Never inquire into another man's secret bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
Horace
Image
Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their days and celebrate their moments and stand with their brothers in the face of what life brings.
Stephen Mansfield
Image
Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as real life, do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.
David Mamet
Image
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art Modernism used art to call attention to art.
Clement Greenberg
Image
We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
Albert Einstein
Image
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
Image
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome
Image
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
Image
Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.
Sidney Jourard
Image
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
Image
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Image
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
Previous
Next