Concealment Quotes

“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”

“The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself”

“She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.”

“Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?”

“Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.”

“Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!”

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”

“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”

“The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.”

“Nature is accustomed to hide itself.”

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

“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”

“There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.”

“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.”

“The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.”

“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”

“It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.”

“Thought is a means of concealing Truth.”