Quotes about Concealment
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is too embarrassing to name and own one's deep failings; as long as they are unvoiced, we may be allowed to pretend it is not so.
- Walter Brueggemann
The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
- Washington Allston
You can never hold too much back because no one will ever really capture who the real Eva Marie is.
- Eva Marie
God does not have to dishonor himself, when he goes into the far country and conceals his glory.
- Karl Barth
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
- AW Tozer
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.
- Seth Godin
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
- William Golding
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
- William Goldman