Quotes about Concealment

Satan wants us to sneak things in secret.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

We are hiding, every last one of us. Well aware that we, too, are not what we were meant to be, desperately afraid of exposure, terrified of being seen for what we are and are not, we have run off into the bushes. We hide in our office, at the gym, behind the newspaper and mostly behind our personality. Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

" "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter," says the book.

He also went invisible, yet stayed (such privilege hath omnipresence).

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

Our Lord made me understand that the only true glory is that which lasts for ever; and that to attain it there is no necessity to do brilliant deeds, but rather to hide from the eyes of others, and even from oneself, so that "the left hand knows not what the right hand does."[1]

I am she that men call Modesty. Virgin I am and ever shall be. Not for me the fruitful fields and the fertile vineyard. Increase is odious to me; and when the apples burgeon or the flocks breed, I run, I run, I let my mantle fall. My hair covers my eyes, I do not see. Spare, O spare!

This core of darkness could go anywhere, for no one saw it.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not wanting among them; nor compressed lips, white with what they suppressed