Verheimlichen / Conceal Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Verheimlichen / Conceal:

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

Mark Van Doren

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Quintilian

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Cyril Connolly

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers.

Loretta Lynch

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

Xenophon

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

Marcus Valerius Martial

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Shakira

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Sophocles

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

Margaret Sanger

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

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

Louis Stokes

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Voltaire

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

Fidel Castro

I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators.

Viet D. Dinh

Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

Pamela Meyer

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal

Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended.

Jim Ryun

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Horace

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Russell Lynes

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

William Osler

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Blaise Pascal

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.

Orrin Hatch

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

Lucan

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

Publilius Syrus

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Hector Hugh Munro

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'

Hugh Laurie

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

David Ogilvy

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Voltaire

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson