Conceal
To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.
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Conceal Quotations
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Confucius
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Voltaire
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles Dickens
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
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
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
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Conceal Translations
conceal in Danish is skjule
conceal in Dutch is verhelen, verbergen, ontveinzen
conceal in Finnish is piilottaa
conceal in French is celons, celer, celent, cachent, cachons, cachez
conceal in German is verbergen, kaschiere, verbergen
conceal in Italian is nascosi, occultare
conceal in Latin is tego texi tectum, abdo, occulto, abscondo, celo
conceal in Portuguese is esconda
conceal in Spanish is ocultar, recatar
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