Vice is nourished by concealment.
Darkness conceals the hippopotamus.
Truth fears nothing but concealment.
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
Have an open face, but conceal your thoughts.
Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men.
If you burn a house, can you conceal the smoke?.
Too much politeness conceals deceit.
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
I can't live without a good scrub or concealer. Concealer could give you 8 hours sleep instantly. I also love lipstick, for everyday a berry tone that resembles the natural lip color.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.
Cover up the good you do -- do like the Nile and conceal your sources.
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character—Philip Larkin is Exhibit A—nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If...
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
