“ Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. ”
- Homer- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book… ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 642
“ Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ”
- Cardinal De Richelieu- Copy
- 1.9K
“ And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 2.6K
“ To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ”
- Daniel C. Gelman- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering the weaknesses of others. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love. ”
- Antiphanes- Copy
- 2.4K
“ There are grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Data banks offer powerful tools for security screening, but they also raise privacy dangers. ”
- Patrick Leahy- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
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“ Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. - Alfred Bernhard Nobel. ”
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, Give it an understanding but no tongue. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace sealed, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 3.9K
“ To keep clear of concealment, to keep clear of the need of concealment, to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday - I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes… ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
- 1.3K
“ It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 1.5K
“ So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience. ”
- Moss Hart- Copy
- 181
“ The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se. ”
- June Jordan- Copy
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