Quotes About Secrecy

I didn't let on I knew. It would have been dangerous for him. Also, if a man takes pride in his disguising skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.

Mom, who knew the dirt, and hid the dirt, and did the dirty work, and never saw herself or us as clean enough – and who believed that there was other dirt you shouldn't tell to children, and didn't tell it, which was dangerous only later.

There was a pot of boiling rage on a private stove behind their closed curtains:

But that's where I am, there's no escaping it. Time's a trap, I'm caught in it. I must forget about my secret name and all ways back. My name is Offred now, and here is where I live.

It was awful for a man to know what women really thought about and talked about. It made a girl feel positively undressed.

Don't spoil it," he said quietly.

I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

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

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.

Gilbert, what is the matter with you?—why are you so changed? It is a very indiscreet question, I know,' she hastened to add: 'perhaps a very rude one—don't answer it if you think so—but I hate mysteries and concealments.

In 1965, Johnson commented sanctimoniously that the problem of Laos is the refusal of the Communist forces to honor the Geneva Accords, What he failed to mention was that his own country wasn't honoring them either; it was just doing a better job of keeping its violations secret.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

It's easier to whisper your feelings than to trumpet them forth out loud

Extraordinary things can happen to people who go into hiding. Just imagine, as there is no bath, we use a washtub and because

Margot is very kind and would like me to confide in her, but I can't tell her everything. She takes me too seriously, far too seriously, and spends a lot of time thinking about her loony sister, looking at me closely whenever I open my mouth and wondering, "Is she acting, or does she really mean it?

Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I'm not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a "diary," unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won't make a bit of difference.

Ho un grande bisogno di star sola. Papà ha notato che sono diversa dal solito, ma non posso raccontargli tutto. «Lasciatemi in pace, lasciatemi sola!» vorrei gridare. Chi sa che un giorno non resti ancor più sola di quanto desidero. Il diario di Anne Frank , Anne Frank.