Virgil Quotes

I like to keep people guessing.

Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.

I know that you cannot banish the truth permanently, you can only cloud it temporarily.

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

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 want to keep people guessing.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

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

Things can’t be kept secret forever.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

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

Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

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

There are more secrets, but there is not more secrecy.

There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.

There is nothing which is secret save it shall be revealed; there is no work of darkness save it shall be made manifest in the light; and there is nothing which is sealed upon the earth save it shall be loosed.

Truth fears nothing but concealment. Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi.

You have to strip people of their poses and disguises.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.