Conceal thy domestic ills. [ Thales ]

Words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the soul within. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Men talk only to conceal the mind. [ Young ]

Our temples do not conceal our age.

Women conceal all that they know not. [ Proverb ]

The body's wisdom to conceal the mind. [ Young ]

The perfection of art is to conceal art. [ Quintilian ]

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [ [Lucretius ]

The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. [ Pope ]

He changes his flag to conceal his being a pirate. [ Proverb ]

A fault is made worse by endeavoring to conceal it. [ Proverb ]

The acts that we conceal are regarded with the highest esteem. [ Pascal ]

From the day one can not conceal a defect, one exaggerates it. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

Prudery is often the mantle chosen to conceal triumphant vice.

Do not conceal the truth from confessors, doctors, and lawyers. [ French Proverb ]

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own. [ Zeno ]

He that cannot conceal his own shame will not conceal another's. [ Proverb ]

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal uncured wounds. [ Horace ]

Gravity is a stratagem invented to conceal the poverty of the mind. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The greatest art of an able man is to know how to conceal his ability. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can hide his griefs. [ Lavater ]

To try to conceal our own heart, is a bad means to read that of others. [ Rousseau ]

No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not. [ Rochefoucauld ]

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

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

You are in a pitiable condition when you have to conceal what you wish to tell. [ Syrus ]

It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [ Kousseau ]

Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a bird betrays her nest, by striving to conceal it. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Disasters are wont to reveal the abilities of a general, good fortune to conceal them. [ Horace ]

English women conceal their feelings until after they are married, then they show them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Thou art sworn as deeply to affect what we intend as closely to conceal what we impart. [ William Shakespeare ]

No disguise can long conceal love where it really exists, nor feign it where it is not. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Women often deceive to conceal what they feel; men to simulate what they do not feel - love. [ E. Legouve ]

Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. [ Addison ]

No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed. [ Johnson ]

One futile person, that maketh it his glory to tell, will do more hurt than many that know it their duty to conceal. [ Bacon ]

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will conceal and cover up what is now shining with the greatest splendor. [ Horace ]

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for tomorrow. [ Johnson ]

Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Much that is published as a novel is only anonymous biography. Many a man who is a bore in conversation may have qualities which give indescribable charms to narrative; and the egotist, if he only have the art to conceal his identity, can then hold the reader by the powerful grasp of sympathy. [ R. S. Mackenzie ]

The man who will share his purse with you in the days of misfortune and distress, and like the good Samaritan, be surety for your support to the landlord, you may admit to your confidence, incorporate into the very core of your heart, and call him friend; misfortunes cannot shake him from you; a prison will not conceal you from his sight. [ J. Bartlett ]

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]