#conceal

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #concealment #empowerment #feminism #ignorance

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself. ↗

— Shakira

#conceal #everyone #find #hard #heart

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#american people #conceal #facts #people #purpose

Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#american #american people #been #cannot #concealed

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#asks #because #conceal #does #either

If you fall in love with jerk, don't you just reject him. He may reveal the jerk part of you which concealed. ↗

— Toba Beta

#fall-in-love #jerk #reject #reveal #love

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#concealed #detain #fastened #filled #first

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#beach #concealing #illness #keeping #like

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#american #conceal #cunning #diabolical #every

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. ↗

— Max Jacob

#despair #expression #found #having #his