Quotes about Concealment
A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
— Anonymous
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
— Anonymous
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.
— Anonymous
It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.
— Francine Rivers
You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.
— Frank Herbert
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
— George Eliot
Whenever God revealed himself to be seen by the fathers, he never appeared as he is in himself but as he could be understood by human minds.
— John Calvin
I have done one braver thingThan all the Worthies did;And yet a braver thence doth spring,Which is, to keep that hid.
— John Donne
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
— Khalil Gibran
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
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a decent fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal.
— Edith Wharton