Best lying & concealed Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.”

Men Eye Lying Speech Various Every Man His Eyes Hypocrisy Covered Disguise Veils Folds Concealed Brows Countenance Deceitful

Book:Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed

Source: Cicero's Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties; also his Cato Major, an essay on Old Age; Lælius, an essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate. Literally translated, with notes ... by Cyrus R. Ed

“A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.”

Lying Waiting Obscure Concealed Omission

Book:Damage: a novel

Source: Damage: a novel

“I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.”

Beautiful Lying Flower Appearance Deeper Concealed Outward Appearance

Book:The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”