Top 455 Conceal Quotes & Sayings

The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

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.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

I still have a stammer. I hate it; I loathe and despise it. But it's always there, and I have lots of ways to conceal it. I can conceal it now but I'm not good on the telephone. I get my husband to make dentist appointments. And I hate live radio. Hate it. I really try to avoid it at all costs. But it's always there. Stammerers become skilled at sentence construction and synonyms: we have to be. Faced with a problem word, we need to have instant access to eight others we could use instead - ones we could say without stumbling. I think my stammer is a huge part of my being a writer.

Volunteer. Sometimes the jobs no one wants conceal big opportunities.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

Conceal thy domestic ills.

Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. … Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

If you conceal things, they become more charged.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Reveal art; conceal the artist.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Nature does not deceive or conceal, but reveals.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

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

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

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

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

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

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

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

Everybody has something to conceal.

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

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.