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Quotes About Secrecy

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.
~ Kevin Keegan
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
~ John Updike
If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.
~ Matt Groening
Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.
~ Philip Pullman
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.
~ Edward Snowden
You shot heroin in the bathroom while I was disinfecting the kitchen. Didn't you?" "Of course not." He pulled on his gloves and led the way into the building. "I hatched from a pod and hid the real Jonathan under the floorboards." "You're much less creepy when you're pensive and focused. Just so you know.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Jacob slid down my body and knelt in front of me. The two of us were wedged into the narrow lane between the and the dresser. He took the front button of my shirt into his mouth. I heard a snap. He spat, and a button pinged to the floor. He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane. Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
João José, o Professor, desde o dia em que furtara um livro de histórias numa estante de uma casa da Barra, se tornara perito nestes furtos. Nunca, porém, vendia os livros, que ia empilhando num canto do trapiche, sob tijolos, para que os ratos não os roessem. Lia-os todos numa ânsia que era quase febre.
~ Jorge Amado
No opina usted que el uso de guardaespaldas es indicio de que hay algo podrido en el gobierno?
~ Jorge Ibargüengoitia
El símbolo entrega su secreto enorme cuando lo tomamos al pie de la letra y sin alterarlo lo trasportamos al resto de la realidad
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.
~ Jose Serrano
Because inside, people are dirty dogs. Everybody. The only difference is some people try to hide it and others don't bother.
~ Josef Å kvorecký
Subt copaci, f?r? de a rosti cuvânt, el o strânse la pieptul s?u; bra?ele li se împletir? în jurul trupurilor ?i pân? în zori, ca ?i cum ar fi fost cusu?i cu a?e tari, nu-?i desf?cur? strânsoarea. În pofida regelui ?i a str?jerilor, iubi?ii se bucurar? de dragostea lor.
~ Joseph Bédier
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
~ Joseph Conrad
There is nothing we fear so much as the unknown, and the Surgeon was not going to enlighten her.
~ Joseph Finder
I can't tell you that, sir." The woman's voice had gone from bored-but-friendly to officious-and-stern.
~ Joseph Finder
Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not on open shelves, but in locked chests.
~ Joseph Gies
to play everything close to the vest.
~ Joseph J. Coffey
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
he was not supposed to hear that;
~ Erin Hunter
I am your mother, Hollyleaf," Leafpool had whispered. Hollyleaf shook her head. That was impossible. How could she be the daughter of a medicine cat, when medicine cats were forbidden to have kits? Worse than being a rogue or a kittypet, her own birth had broken the code of the Clans.
~ Erin Hunter
Graystripe looked ready to burst out of his skin. "Fireheart," he whispered, "Silverstream is going to have my kits!
~ Erin Hunter
Why does she look like she's hiding something?
~ Erin Hunter