Cats hide their claws. [ Proverb ]
They that hide can find. [ Proverb ]
He that steals can hide. [ Proverb ]
You cannot hide any secret. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
At whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminished heads. [ Milton ]
Hide their diminished heads. [ Milton ]
Love and light will not hide. [ Proverb ]
Gather gear by every wile
That's justified by honor;
Not for to hide it in a hedge,
Nor for a train attendant;
But for the glorious privilege
Of being independent. [ Burns ]
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me. [ Pope ]
You cannot hide an eel in a sack. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Love and poverty are hard to hide. [ Proverb ]
A fair face may hide a foul heart. [ Proverb ]
Within the oyster's shell uncouth
The purest pearl may hide,
Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough outside. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
To throw the stone and hide the hand. [ Proverb ]
To hide true worth from public view,
Is burying diamonds in their mine,
All is not gold that shines, 'tis true;
But all that is gold ought to shine. [ Bishop ]
No fine clothes can hide the fool or clown. [ Proverb ]
You cut large thongs out of another's hide. [ Proverb ]
Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there. [ Quarles ]
Fine clothes oftentimes hide a base descent. [ Proverb ]
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! [ Duke of Wellington ]
Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shapes
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]
As kind as a kite; all you cannot eat you hide. [ Proverb ]
Thus, day by day, and month by month, we passed;
It pleased the Lord to take my spouse at last.
I tore my gown, I soiled my locks with dust.
And beat my breasts - as wretched widows must:
Before my face my handkerchief I spread,
To hide the flood of tears I did - not shed. [ Pope ]
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. [ William Shakespeare ]
You hide yourself in a net and think nobody sees you. [ Proverb ]
Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]
Oh, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! [ William Shakespeare ]
How many coward passions hide themselves under the mask of puritanism! [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. [ Alexander Smith ]
He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can hide his griefs. [ Lavater ]
There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide. [ George Sand ]
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; robes and furred gowns hide all. [ William Shakespeare ]
There are few circumstances in which it is not best either to hide all or to tell all. [ La Bruyère ]
There are no more thorough prudes than those women who have some little secret to hide. [ George Sand ]
Dress deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything: the girl herself is the least part of herself. [ Ovid ]
A thin aerial veil is drawn over beauty's face, seeming to hide, more sweetly shows the blushing bride. [ Crashaw ]
The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there, and will reappear. [ Carlyle ]
Hypocrites are wicked: they hide their defects with so much care, that their hearts are poisoned by them. [ Marguerite de Valais ]
A lover who is no longer loved is still good for something: he serves to hide the one who has replaced him.
Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths. [ George Eliot ]
Dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. [ William Shakespeare ]
Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All- Seeing One will discover and punish it. [ Rivarol ]
Some men are counted wise from the cunning manner in which they hide their ignorance. In what little they do know such men play the pedant. [ A. Ricard ]
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves. [ George Eliot ]
Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear. [ Carlyle ]
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. [ Carlyle ]
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing!
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]