Concealing Quotes - Page 2

• But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Defense, Way

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• Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

  Christopher Lasch

  Order, Moral, Birth

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• People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  People, Exposed

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• Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Knowledge, People

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.42

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• Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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• My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Anger, Heart

  William Shakespeare, Brian Morris (1981). “The Taming of the Shrew: Second Series”, p.123, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us so superior.

  Victoria Alexander

  Humility, Quality, Males

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• I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold -- but not our brother-men -- not even the best and kindest amongst them.

  Anne Bronte

  Brother, Book, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.681, Penguin

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• American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Clever, Past

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.197, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

  Franklin P. Jones

  Art, Originality, Source

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• I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms..." Tessa stared. "Alas," he went on, "no one has ever actually referred to me as 'the master,' or 'the magister,' either. More's the pity.

  Cassandra Clare

  Art, Lying, Flower

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• So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?” “I thought they might be part of your disguise.” “My disguise?” “Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone’s identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mean, Spy, Identity

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• Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Fear, Heart

  "Fictional character: Eva Perón". "Evita", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

  George Carlin

  Truth, Stupid People, Tools

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• 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 you can’t be good, be careful.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Mistake, Men

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• Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Vanity, Order

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Joseph Andrews and Shamela”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Pride, Names, Quality

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Doing Nothing, Way

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

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• Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Eggs, Giving

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• I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

  Norman Tebbit

  Party, Responsibility, Class

  Speech to Epping Conservatives, November 17, 1969.

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• As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

  William Cowper

  Ivy, Rotten, Stones

  'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 285

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• The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

  Susan Sontag

  Party, Reality, Self

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.142, Macmillan

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• I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Drama, Character, People

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• Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.

  Jay Carr

  Jobs, Eye, Generations

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• Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it.

  Pope Francis

  Evil, Bleeding, Armenians

  "Turkey must end its 100 years of genocide denial" by Peter Balakian, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2015.

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