Quotes of: Concealing Keyword

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Al Stewart

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

Douglas Feith

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Wendell Phillips

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

Clement Freud

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

James Agate

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

Burton G. Malkiel

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Jose Saramago

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

George Bernard Shaw

Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Besides, why must you always be the one to do the uncovering? You know how the Council feels about these... detours. Perhaps, just once, the uncovering ...

Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace

No lie, secret, betrayal, or mistake will remain concealed if you have a past.

Surviving Today

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Publilius Syrus

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know.

Karl Kraus

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

Loretta Lynch

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.

M. Beddow Bayly

Folded hands may conceal a dagger -- Likewise a foe's tears.

Kural

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

John Ruskin

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

Bernhard Schlink