Top 113 Concealing Quotes & Sayings

The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

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

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

Recognizing chronic sadness may encourage someone to reach out to a friend, family member, or counselor rather than concealing the distress.

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Racism is still alive they just be concealing it

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

True art consists in concealing art.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Although it's not useful to drown in despair, it's also not useful to keep a 'positive attitude' when this means concealing or denying real emotions.