Quotes about Concealment

I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.

War is like night," she said. "It covers everything.

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?

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

Everyone knows about the problem, but no one talks about it openly.

He hadn't lied with words, but sometimes the lie was the thing left unsaid.

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

She never had power to conceal her passion, it always set her whole complexion in a blaze.

Mama never told me I had a father.

Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.

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.

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.