Quotes About Secrecy

In novels, I have noticed, anonymous letters of a foul and disgusting character are never shown, if possible, to women. It is implied that women must at all cost be shielded from the shock it might give their delicate nervous systems. I am sorry to say it never occurred to me not to show the letter to Joanna. I handed it to her at once.

Great mistake to say too much. Remember that. Never tell all you know — not even to the person you know best.

Io sospetto di tutti fino all'ultimo momento» replicò.

To hide the truth, never does it avail, madame! Be brave and tell him everything.

Mr. Lester, he takee those,' answered the other, who was a Chinaman. 'He say, puttee them allee in safee place—where pleeceman no lookee.

followed his instructions, taking up my position by the baize door, and wondering what on earth lay behind the request.

They won't know. Who's to tell them? Nobody knows but you." It was the second time she had said those words. At this second repetition her voice changed a little

I'd rather tell you than have you snooping around finding out.

That's why you often find that the author of anonymous letters is the last person in the place to be suspected. Some quiet inoffensive little soul who apparently can't say Bo to a goose—all sweetness and Christian meekness on the outside—and seething with all the fury of hell underneath!

The typists might have been so many blackbeetles.

Murder is easy,if no one suspects you

It's like a sleepover, when you feel you can say all kinds of things, because the darkness hides your blushes.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

The Americans don't know about him?' 'Too dangerous. Either it would leak, or they'd be unable to resist killing any AQ figure he was with, and him too.

Wrong Pauley made sure no one was around before he started down the alleyway toward his burrow. His nightly nesting spot didn't qualify as a Hobbit hole, or even a rabbit hole. It was a hollow in the midst of a strip of ice plant above a cinderblock

What would I tell people? That I work in the Defense against the Dark Arts Division?" "I have another name in mind: Special Cases Unit.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

An idea so dangerous it can't be discussed. I thought we buried all that nonsense back in the Dark Ages.

I am not answerable to what happens with my personal life.

I don't want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.

No one is supposed to know about my personal life because that is supposed to be kept private.

You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.