(86 quotes found)
“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
Mark Twain
“What soberness conceals, Drunkenness reveals”
Proverb
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed”
Blaise Pascal
“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.”
Charles Dickens
“He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured”
Ethiopian Proverb
“Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?”
Giacomo Puccini
“A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.”
Joseph Addison
“Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend”
Solomon Ibn Gabirol ben Judah
“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”
Cyril Connolly