(88 quotes found)
“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
“If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend”
Solomon Ibn Gabirol ben Judah
“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
“Many stars cannot be concealed by a small cloud”
Maori Proverb
“It is fraud to conceal fraud”
Legal Maxim
“When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.”
Mark van Doren
“Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes”
David Hume
“Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
Mark Twain
“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of our selves, and how little we think of the other person”
