#conceal

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#assume #conceals #love #profound #significance

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. ↗

— St. Jerome

#friendship #never #ought #thinks #true

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #commonplace #concealment #however #may

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

— Shakira

#conceal #everyone #find #hard #heart

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

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dark-plans #darkness #stealth #darkness

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. ↗

— Lucan

#death #endure #gods #happiness #life

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#conceal #could #escape #exposes #hip-hop

No one respects a talent that is concealed. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#respects #talent