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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
If you conceal things, they become more charged.
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.
Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.
The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.
Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
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.