Quotes About Secrecy

L'amore è opaco come i vetri delle finestre dei cessi

You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn't happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her

I take it for granted that she has found a way to disappear, to leave not so much as a hair anywhere in this world.

É preciso esconder tudo deles, dos homens. Preferiam não saber, preferiam fazer de conta que o que acontecia em seus ambientes por algum milagre não ocorreria com a mulheres ligadas a eles e que - esta era a ideia que os acompanhara desde a infância - deviam proteger mesmo correndo o risco de serem assassinados.

Quantas palavras permanecem impronunciáveis mesmo entre um casal que se ama, e como é alto o risco de que outros o destruam ao revelá-las.

Accept that to be adult is to disappear, is to learn to hide to the point of vanishing?

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

Why was it so hard not to glance through an open door, even when you didn't want to see inside?

The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

ANDREW: Supposing someone saw you climing in? MILO: Who? You're not overlooked. ANDREW: Who knows? A dallying couple. A passing sheep rapist.

There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.

And she is older, in my defense, the way Alison goes on you'd think I'd been fucking an undergraduate. In any case, once Astrid and I had established relations, I understood that they might cross paths, so we were exceptionally discreet about our . . . connection.

Something the doctors hadn't been able to figure out earlier, because, he found out later, Francis hadn't divulged to them his habitual cocaine use.

Our relationship developed under a cloud of paranoia. We ordered in rather than going out. When we did meet out in the world, we avoided anywhere that we might bump into anyone we knew. This might have seemed like overkill, but it was also fun, one of the games we played.

The Rajah's handsome eunuch never guessed that she was telling him the tale of her own life.

Antonio J. Méndez

Exfiltrations are like abortions," I said. "You don't need one unless something's gone wrong. If you need one, don't try to do it yourself. We can give you a nice, clean job.

Quien se oculta tiene siempre más prestigio que quien se muestra abiertamente.

A husband who does not secretly weep after a couple of years of his marriage is either in deep sleep or probably cheat on his wife to sleep with other women in life.

A wife who speaks less with her husband says much about him outside their house only to others who could be either some other man or often her mother.

When I'd begun my last relationship, nearly two decades ago, I'd been unaware of the rule that new lovers must hoard the 'L Word' the way atomic nations hoard their explosives, like something that, once detonated, would change their world forever.

He smiled, sadly. 'You know the popular saying that the three conditions impossible to conceal are a cough, wealth and being in love? Well, to me there is a fourth: mathematical gift.

A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.

Will there be traitors, Father?" "There are always traitors. Trust nobody.