Quotes About Secrecy

Any time I'm not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it's because I'm up to something.

Nobody heard anything ahead of time.

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them.

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

He had paid dearly for his secrecy, for his lack of courage in coming to the point.

And there was his love for Allie to be hidden from everyone and everything but his own heart.

He had never even put words to these deepest feelings in his own mind . . . He had never told anyone else. Or even himself. Yet he had told Diana Ingram.

Los ojos suelen ser el punto débil de cualquier disfraz, ¿sabe usted? Porque el portador del mismo debe ver el mundo y debe dejarlos expuestos por muy bien que oculte el resto de su persona. Sin embargo, sus ojos son su disfraz... o al menos son la parte más importante. Me es imposible vislumbrar siquiera un trocito de su alma por mucho que los mire.

Cassie, Griff told you not to ride. Griff told you not to talk about the baby to the point you don't know a thing about what's to come. Griff told you a woman was unclean when she was carryin' a child. Griff mortgaged all your family heirlooms without telling you so you could have a useless new silk dress every year. Excuse me for speakin' ill of the dead, Cass, but your husband wasn't very smart, was he?

Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.

He was enjoying himself now. He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers.

It was a closely held family

So let's not tell anyone," said Annie. "Dad won't believe it," said

Sex is one of those rare topics wherein the desire for others to keep the nitty-gritty of their experiences private is stronger even than the wish to keep mum on one's own nitty-gritty.

Clearly, Diana did not want us to know who she was. We may possibly have been the only people Diana ever knew who had no idea who she was. We welcomed her into our home and trusted her with our child for what she was. This may have been one reason she stayed in touch with us over the years.

avoided explanation, and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created. I had a feeling that I should be supposed mad, and this for ever chained my tongue, when I would have given the whole world to have confided the fatal secret.

should leave my friends unconscious of the existence of their enemy, and unprotected from his attacks

None knew of their love except their own two hearts...