Quotes About Secrecy

she refused to say where she'd gotten the gun.

Secret diplomacy is a necessary tool for a propertied minority which is compelled to deceive the majority in order to subject it to its interests," he continued. "Imperialism, with its dark plans of conquest and its robber alliances and deals, developed the system of secret diplomacy

O let me love my love unto myself alone, And know my knowledge to the world unknown, No witness to the vision call, Beholding, unbeheld of all...

It was during the Retreat of the Eighty Thousand, and the authority of the Censorship is sufficient excuse for not being more explicit.

Arthur Machen

Lucian pigeon-holed the letter solemnly in the receptacle lettered "Barbarians.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

La del agente secreto, como cualquier vida clandestina, requería talento, frialdad y aptitudes para la supervivencia. También capacidad de improvisación, saber adaptarse al entorno y facilidad para captar el conjunto por simples detalles.

entre sacristanes procurábamos no soplarnos el cirio.

Banqueros de postín como Juan March, que a esas alturas ya habían puesto la pasta a buen recaudo en el extranjero, empezaron a ofrecerse para financiar un golpe de Estado como Dios manda, y algunos destacados generales contactaron discretamente con los gobiernos de Alemania e Italia para sondear cómo verían el sartenazo a la República.

que tú haría un viaje largo, muy lejos... Y sepas lo que sepas, no lo cuentes ni bajo confesión. Si de esto se entera un cura, cuelga los hábitos, vende el secreto y se hace rico.

La verdad es que usted y yo, y acaso todos, estamos siempre como en esos juegos de niños que consisten en no decir cierta palabra, a pesar de todas las complicadas preguntas que se nos hacen para obligarnos a pronunciarlas. Estamos jugando a no decir lo que tendríamos que decir, para reservarlo para determinado momento o para determinada persona, con el riesgo de que en el momento de decirlo, por inusitado, suene falso o convencional o lo que es peor, cursi.

They sat behind a screen, and grunted and wheezed over sheets of brown paper that looked as if ink-dipped and intoxicated spiders had danced across them.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

You could say she hid there, in the words, an escape within an escape...

He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious. He was a punk, she did ballet, what more can I say. He wanted her, she wouldn't tell, but secretly she wanted him as well

The veil of secrecy shrouding high-profile political assassinations in postindependence Pakistan has extended to information on the inner dynamics of its frenzied history.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

Il casco nasconde sentimenti che non possono essere compresi.

There be three degrees of this hiding and veiling of a man's self. The first, closeness, reservation, and secrecy; when a man leaveth himself without observation, or without hold to be taken, what he is. The second, dissimulation, in the negative; when a man lets fall signs and arguments, that he is not, that he is. And the third, simulation, in the affirmative; when a man industriously and expressly feigns and pretends to be, that he is not.

I didn't tell anybody that I wanted to rap when I was in high school.

I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name.

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.