Quotes with conceal

  • The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
  • Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

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  • Jane Austen A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Joseph Addison Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 'Frank and explicit', that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Cyril Connolly All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower 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
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bob Dylan Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse.
    When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
    You're invisible now. You've got no secrets to conceal.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes 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.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • A. E. Housman In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Kelly Fordyce Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
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  • Sir William Osler Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Al Stewart 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
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Patrick Blackett May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
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  • Camille Paglia Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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