Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.
The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest
A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.
Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal
Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.
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.
Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.
If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.
The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
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.
Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
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