As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.
For the first time in so long I kept my silence and decided to conceal the words in the aching crevices of my heart.
Peg Boggs: The light concealing cream goes on first. Then you blend, and blend, and blend. Blending is the secret.
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...
But it was like hiding a corpse. I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun.
A blanket could be used to conceal. That’s why I recommend the current cast of political bedfellows running this country use one to make good on their “transparent” administration.
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.
If my opinions are wrong, I must correct them—if they are above my station, I must endeavour to conceal them.
