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Quotes about Concealment

I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.
- David Ogilvy
War is like night," she said. "It covers everything.
- Elie Wiesel
People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?
- Alice Hoffman
This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.
- Christina Ricci
Everyone knows about the problem, but no one talks about it openly.
- Rick Warren
He hadn't lied with words, but sometimes the lie was the thing left unsaid.
- Denise Hunter
She dried her tears and they did smile To see her cheeks' returning glow How little dreaming all the while That full heart throbbed to overflow With that sweet look and lively tone And bright eye shining all the day They could not guess at midnight lone How she would weep the time away
- Emily Bronte
She never had power to conceal her passion, it always set her whole complexion in a blaze.
- Emily Bronte
Mama never told me I had a father.
- Emily Bronte
Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.
- Phil Klay
Sakyamuni means the silent one or the sage (muni) of the Sakya clan. Though he is the founder of a widely taught world religion, the ultimate core of his doctrine remains concealed, necessarily, in silence.
- Joseph Campbell
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich