Quotes About Secrets

Below this shelf are these big dinner plates on display, they're wedding china that came from Aunts Penelope and Daphne some years before Lester and Chester. They were very china-giving aunts, which was of course secret warfare because the more they gave the more you had to find some place to display the stuff. We had china in boxes in the cabins that we couldn't sell because it had to be taken out when The Aunts arrived.

Todo el mundo tiene secretos. Todos hacemos cosas que no queremos que se sepan.

to get the box containing the signals and ship's orders and throw it into the sea.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

No one really knows anyone. That's amazing, isn't it? We share everything, but we all have our secret gardens, too. We all have fantasies and fears and fetishes. We all have secrets about ourselves we don't want to share.

fetishes. We all have secrets about ourselves we don't want to share.

At the most basic level of protecting a writer's personal safety, democratic countries offer a further advantage. If you steal hundreds of thousands of documents from the Russian state and put them online, the FSB will try to kill you. Steal American secrets, and the CIA will not.

The religious do not say that they are defending the truth from libellous attack, because in their hearts they know that the truth of the holy books cannot be defended. Instead, like celebrities' lawyers trying to hide secrets, they threaten the gains made in the struggle for religious toleration by saying that those who ask searching questions of religion must be punished for invading the privacy of the pious.

Rothstein worked with Park Avenue men as beards in the club-house, and with Broadway characters, such as Morris the Boob on The Lawn, and he probably bet away from the track, too.

Bishop Rhiel says a book is full of secret signs that tell a story. A god's story. It sounds as though it should be interesting, but it isn't.

For a while she enjoyed a life in which she behaved exactly as she should: a royal maid with no secrets.

No doubt her uncle had his reasons.

Never say the dangerous thing aloud.

From the strange, cold distance in which she had placed herself, Hild wondered what he would do if she said she could see into the realm of the dead. He would believe her. They all believed her, no matter what she said.

She will never say what the girl's true name is, or who the other was, and the stories are never the same. And always the cave is hidden.

If she had just asked! But no. She pushes me into a corner where there's no choice." "It's what women do: weave the web, pull the strings, herd into the corner. It's their only power. Unless they're seers.

We drove in silence. The only things we knew about each other revolved around the death of a man who had been her friend and I didn't want to talk about that, didn't want to think about murder and men with money.

Bed games were one thing, keys another.

Her mother's voice was rich and round with secrets.

Holding secrets, her mother said, made a man feel mighty.

I never knew my father," she said again, slowly. She could only tell the truth. "Of the rest, I may not speak.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the great secrets of eloquence in Society.