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Quotes About Secrecy

Do you have a husband concealed about you?
~ Georgette Heyer
Tell him that I shan't interfere in any way! I shall, of course, but he will never know it, so you needn't scruple to say that, dearest!
~ Georgette Heyer
It had survive both separation and divulging interests.
~ Georgette Heyer
Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of
~ Georgette Heyer
I'm going out, and I want you to wait for me here. If all goes as I hope it may, I shall need you in the morning. I've seen Stogumber today, and he has agreed to stay within doors until he hears from me again.' 'Are you going to tell him where the ready and rhino's hid?' 'No: you will do that! You've nothing to fear from him. I must go now: I'll tell you what
~ Georgette Heyer
The whole pack of them were lying, one way or another, some to shield others, some from fear.
~ Georgette Heyer
I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.
~ Germaine Greer
There's another surprise!" Sam said. "I've seen your Mystery Man!
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
When he saw that they knew him, the man turned his back and began to work again.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.
~ Wanda Sykes
I worked for GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, and is the equivalent of the NSA here in the U.S.
~ Katharine Gun
I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.
~ Jenny Han
As ever, I caveat with saying that I don't write about the factual content of my C.I.A. experience. Ever. People who are working hard to save lots of lives depend on me to keep my mouth shut.
~ Tom King
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.
~ Vanessa Kirby
No one saw me cry over my dad's death for almost nine years. I hid what I felt, bottling up my emotions so tightly that almost nothing leaked out.
~ Jonny Bairstow
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.
~ Sarah Dessen
I knew Tim Pastoor. I knew Sherry Ford. I knew many of the individuals who would follow me around. I knew who they were. I knew they had access to my email.
~ Tyrone Hayes
SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.
~ John le Carre
I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly.
~ Jon Ronson
I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side.
~ Steve Bannon
All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what you have been at such pains to conceal.
~ Michael Korda