Quotes About Secrecy

capacity would. He would probably consider that to send back the launch or to keep it at a wharf would make pursuit easy if the police did happen to get on his track. How, then, could he conceal the launch and yet have her at hand when wanted? I wondered

Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen gray eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.

Someone in a novel, was he not? I don't take much stock of detectives in novels--chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them.

Ciò che è noto racchiude in sé meno terrore di ciò che è soltanto sussurrato e fantasticato

that the full facts have never been revealed to the general

I would not tell them too much. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them.

I'm not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor. You know a conjuror gets no credit when once he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. -Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia

Nikad nisam stvarno razumjela zašto se Hatsumomo izlaže takvom riziku i dovodi ljubavnika u okiju, iako je nju vjerojatno upravo to uzbu?ivalo.

Hide!' she whispered. 'The vegetarians are coming.

The room had kept his secrets. It gave nothing away. Not in the disarray of rumpled sheets, nor the untidiness of a kicked off shoe, or a wet towel hung over the back of a chair. Or a half-read book. It was like a room in a hospital after the nurse had just been. The floor was clean, the walls white. The cupboard closed. Shoes arranged. The dustbin empty.

And that summer, as Hurricane Ella made its way toward the city, an emergency crew worked at night under veil of secrecy to weld two-inch-thick steel plates around the two hundred critical bolts, and the building was secured. The Citicorp tower has stood solidly ever since. The

I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.

The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I'm writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I'm an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.

It was a great story and I admired her. And I also felt a little envious. Because that bloody tampon had been a secret weapon. And every woman had one. But only a woman like Debby would be brave enough to use it.

It is astonishingly satisfying to look at him and think Closet Case, and know he can read my mind as he looks away flushed. All Mormons are gay, I believe. Rick is merely a further example.

And she thought, with a vicious thrill, of what these people would do if they read her mind in this moment; if they knew that she was thinking of a man in a quarry, thinking of his body with a sharp intimacy as one does not think of another's body but only of one's own. She smiled; the cold purity of her face prevented them from seeing the nature of that smile.

John Jay would offer the best analysis later, to George Washington: "There is as much intrigue in this state house as in the Vatican, but as little secrecy as in a boarding school.

Dryly he noted that some individuals enjoyed every political gift except that of discretion.)

It was an odd thing about Boston, Crown officials observed. A confidential, early-morning insinuation could blossom into common knowledge by evening. Yet when 342 crates of tea immersed themselves in water, no one had seen a thing.

Lo mejor será que hables lo menos posible de tus planes. Uno ya no sabe adónde te puede llevar una conversación, ni qué puedes esperar de personas a las que conoces de toda la vida.

It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.

So, I heard you're this ninja or something.

Please don't try to figure out who she is because then you might figure