#conceal

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#charming #conceal #dependence #others #people

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#concealing #ever #evidence #existed #going

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. ↗

— George Eliot

#govern #half #her #man #must

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#declared #feared #hatreds #more #openly

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.' ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conceal #equality #evil #expose #good

The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like treasure in a cave. ↗

— Jody Shields

#fig #fruit #fruit-tree #mystery #nature

Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ↗

— Voltaire

#speech #thoughts #men

Concealed talent brings no reputation. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#concealed #reputation #talent