Conceal Reveal Quotes & Sayings

Masks reveal. They don't conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires. — Chloe Thurlow

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. — Horace

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain. — Jesse Jackson

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. — Oscar Wilde

Mind not only what people say, but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears. People can say what they will, but they cannot look just as they will; and their looks frequently (reveal) what their words are calculated to conceal. — Lord Chesterfield

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal. — Susan Sontag

The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest — Claude C. Hopkins

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude. — Leo Tolstoy

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. — Michael Oakeshott

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. — Okakura Kakuzo

He had always told her that there was only one existence, one science, one religion, that the external world was but a variegated shadow which might either conceal or reveal the truth; and now she believed. He had shewn her that bodily rapture might be the ritual and expression of the ineffable mysteries, of the world beyond sense, that must be entered by the way of sense; and now she believed. — Arthur Machen

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things. — Damian Lewis

Reveal art; conceal the artist. — Gustave Flaubert

And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isn't another outfit in the world that balances better the twin feminine urges to conceal and reveal. It outlines the woman's shape but hides the faults a skirt can't - under a sari a heavy behind, unflattering legs are invisible. But it also reveals the midriff, a part of the anatomy most Western women hide all the time. I was mesmerized, Randy, by the mere fact of being able to see her belly button when she walked, the single fold of flesh above the knot of her sari, the curve of her waist toward her hips. That swell of flesh just above a woman's hipbone, Randy, is the sexiest part of the female anatomy to me. And I didn't even have to undress her to see it. I was completely smitten. — Shashi Tharoor

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde THE PREFACE The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things — Oscar Wilde

We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy. — Yahia Lababidi

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses. — Basil Hume

Call me Mac," he said.
Mackadocious is more like it.
"For the next month, I will be your writing instructor..."
Lip Macking Good.
"It was Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who said, 'Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within...'"
Big Mac Attack.
"Here, in the next five weeks, I hope you do more revealing than concealing..."
Oh, I'll reveal more than that if you want me to, Mac Daddy. — Megan McCafferty

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one. — Chogyam Trungpa

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. — Oscar Wilde

Nicknames reveal the man; real names conceal the man. — F.W. Boreham

Of what is concealed can also be revealed. — Pushpa Rana

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things. — Errol Morris

The reader tries to uncover the skeleton that the book conceals. The author starts with the skeleton and tries to cover it up. His aim is to conceal the skeleton artistically or, in other words, to put flesh on the bare bones. If he is a good writer, he does not bury a puny skeleton under a mass of fat; on the other hand, neither should the flesh be too thin, so that the bones show through. If the flesh is thick enough, and if the flabbiness is avoided, the joints will be detectable and the motion of the parts will reveal the articulation. — Mortimer J. Adler

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference. — Matthew Arnold

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak. — David Mamet

The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal — Yukio Mishima

Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal. — John Paul Caponigro

In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Shadow conceals - light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art. — Josef Von Sternberg

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. — Irving R. Levine

There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ? — Terry Pratchett

It was one of those feminine faces whose every line has its own particular charm, and seems to possess a meaning, whose every movement seems to reveal or to conceal something. — Guy De Maupassant

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about. — Quentin Blake

We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit
the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness. — Alice McDermott

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini. — Arlen Specter

Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them. — A.D. Posey

Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal — Thrity Umrigar

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