Quotes About Secrets

Yet this honesty demanded emotional deception, fraud in a virtuous cause, a sacred duplicity. He was telling MI6 every secret truth he could find while lying to his colleagues and his bosses, his family, his best friend, his estranged wife and his new lover.

Secrets are the currency of intelligence work, and among professional spies a little calculated indiscretion raises the exchange rate.

Families necessitate energetic concealment of the obvious, to be plain about it. To be in a family is to work strenuously to suppress the truth, for reasons I cannot determine, and the shadow, when it came, caused competing strategies in the family I occupied.

We can contain such secret misery, perversion.

Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn't exist… First you're slightly disappointed, and then you're happy because you're in on the secret

Mr Wooster, you will have heard of the Official Secrets Act…?' 'Er–no.' 'Really?' He had evidently assumed his question to be rhetorical, and was fairly startled by my lacuna. 'Just goes to prove how effective it is, what?

Hunt's wife, after all, had died in questionable circumstances,

La imaginación tiene sus propios motivos y nos los oculta.

Brenda Ruttledge —dijo Quirke—. Una de las enfermeras.

Patología, Wilkins y Sinclair, sus ayudantes, intercambiaron

Three can keep a secret if two are dead.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

Three people can keep a secret so long as two of them are dead.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

There are only two things a child will share willingly — communicable diseases and his mother's age.

There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.

Classified information includes much more than the actual 'secrets' acquired. It includes how they were acquired and the process by which related analyses were made.

In relationships, you want to be secure but not know what's coming next. Everyone has to have secrets, but if I'm asked a question, I'll answer honestly.

We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative?

I am intrigued by the way secrets move through a family and how events and perceptions from decades earlier continue to influence the way relatives view each other. Homes shape family histories as well.

These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them.

Baking's meant to be done at home. It's meant to be a good time. It's not about, like, hoarding secrets. It's about sharing them.

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.