George Villiers Quotes

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.

I've laid my friends bare.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

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

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders.

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

My life is now an open book.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.