Quotes About Secrecy

At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

He went back through the wet wild woods, waving his wild tail, and walking by his wild lone. But he never told anybody.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Adultery would be punishable by stoning if Annette had her way; I sometimes wonder if she's secretly Muslim.

strange, how lovers cannot bear that the world should not know their love

You don't have to lie if you know how to withhold the truth.

That meant she had to find a way to slip out of the townhouse again without being caught in her

For shame doesn't arise from the shameful action, but from discovery and exposure.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.

All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Bu k?z? nedense kendime pek yak?n bulmu?tum, içinden geçenleri söyleyememek, en kuvvetli, en derin, en güzel taraflar?n? müthi? bir k?skançl?k ve itimats?zl?kla saklamak cihetinden onu kendi­me benzetiyordum.

Much as you joke about it, it wouldn't do for anyone to find you here. My brothers are unpredictable, and Gran might just chase you around the manor with her cane.

He slipped into the hall, then nearly tripped over a man sitting in the middle. It was his friend Dr. Roget, whose project of grouping words by their types absorbed his every hour these days. Anthony tried to sneak past, but no such luck.

Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.

So many crucial events take place behind people's backs, when they aren't in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. And the temporary oblivion of sex.

You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.

This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It's as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered.

The truth is I don't want him watching me while I eat. I don't want him to see my hunger. If you have a need and they find it out, they will use it against you. The best way is to stop from wanting anything. He