Quotes About Secrecy

In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

Marvel's very secretive, and I'm not hiding anything, I'm not lying; it's just the way they are.

My mom was so good at hiding the bad in life that I thought all of life was good.

It was not a state secret that I would call on Thackeray. I was not hiding anything.

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

Yes, it did look like 'where did she go?' I was hiding.

You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a Hillary guy.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

For each, God has a different response. With every man He has a secret—the secret of a new name. In every man there is a loneliness, an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.

To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.

Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.

Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.

Sin duda,podrían saber hasta el más pequeño detalle todo lo que uno hubiera hecho, dicho o pensado;pero el fondo del corazón, cuyo contenido era un misterio incluso para su dueño, se mantendría siempre inexpugnable.

beyond that, only his own secret imaginings, founded on a dream. He

Je?li chce si? zachowa? tajemnic?, nale?y ukry? j? nawet przed sob?.

Comprendió que si uno quiere guardar un secreto debe ocultárselo también a sí mismo.

In the private letters of Albert Sloane, by permission of the Sloane family.

he spoke out forcefully against leakers, including former CIA agent Philip Agee, who had just released a tell-all book. My father could forgive a lot of mistakes, but he believed that it was disgraceful for a man to violate his oath and reveal state secrets, especially when it could lead to the loss of innocent American life.

Never attach where it is obvious

He hadn't complained to anybody. Even Madame Maigret didn't know why he had fallen into disgrace and been transferred to Luçon. This was the hidden face of the profession, of no concern to those outside.