Quotes about Concealment
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
- Cicero
The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.
- Margaret Atwood
I did not give him a straight answer, because saying what you really want out loud brings bad luck, and then the good thing will never happen. It might not happen anyway, but just to make sure, you should be careful about saying what you want or even wanting anything, as you may be punished for it.
- Margaret Atwood
What you don't know won't hurt you.
- Margaret Atwood
Disguise is easier when you're young.
- Margaret Atwood
It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!
- Anne Frank
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused.
- Anne Frank
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.
- Anne Frank
The old stories of what happened to Joe or Bob or Sue thirty years ago are told over and over. We use them to stoke our fear, to rationalize our desire to hide.
- Seth Godin
David was at much pains to cover up his wickedness, but ere long the all-seeing God sent one of His servants to say to him, "Thou art the man"!
- AW Pink
How solemn is this fact: nothing can be concealed from God!
- AW Pink
I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.
- George Bernard Shaw