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

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth or in affectation.

The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.

As part of our layered approach we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her half her strength must be concealment.

Hip-hop reflects the truth and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information but it's also an escape.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Words like nature half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

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.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

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

Choose silence of all virtues for by it you hear other men's imperfections and conceal your own.

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.

Love has features which pierce all hearts he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

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

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

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.