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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
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.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.
I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.
The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
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.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.
When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what you have been at such pains to conceal.
The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.
Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem
Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
At the end of the day, if someone tries to conceal something they will, and when you find out, you deal with it. That's it. We can't possibly know everything that happens.
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.
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.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?
Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?
Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.
It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
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.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
