Quotes About Secrecy

Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

Human speech conceals far more than it confides; it blurs much more than it defines; it distances more than it connects," was George Steiner's conclusion.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.

With Will I sensed a vast internal hinterland, a world he wouldn't give me even a glimpse of.

I pressed my ear against the door, trying to work out if it was safe to knock, feeling furtive, as if it were I who was at fault. But all I could hear was music and muffled conversation.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

If you do it with a trusted male elder of the church, IT'S TOTALLY OKAY BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T TELL ANYONE BECAUSE IT'S A HOLY SECRET! Here's some cab fare and a wet wipe.

I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.

Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.

obfuscating everything in sight

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

I vaguely mind people knowing anything I don't know. --Paul McCartney

and had been observed entering and exiting one of Larue's current

And he laughs and winks again and says, 'Happy endings, Earl, happy endings.' As if we're sharing his nasty secret and he thinks I'm not free to divulge it because he's my client." Milo said, "You think he had something to

Ironically, but also tellingly, the same charges had been laid against the first Christians by their adversaries in ancient Rome, where Christianity was similarly regarded as a secret cult whose members killed and ate babies in the course of the demoniacal sex orgies that served as their worship service.

I did not and do not want my life tied up in cloak-and-dagger bullshit, dead guys, or pissing contests with either the testosterone crowd in there or some prissy-assed Earl Grey-drinking, scone-munching major who isn't even my freaking boss. I don't know you and I don't give a rat's ass if you trust me.

Dubya was their public face, and may not have even known it. He's a Texas jokester who couldn't manage a Wal-Mart and the Inner Circle put him in the Oval Office for two terms while they moved behind the scenes." "What about the current administration?" asked Gault. "The Inner Circle doesn't have the same kind of control over this president, which is why they are trying to weaken him and discredit his accomplishments.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. —NIELS BOHR

The closet encouraged reading.

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.