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Quotes About Secrecy

Enigma was considered invulnerable, until the Poles revealed its weaknesses.
~ Simon Singh
This apparently innocuous observation would lead to the first great breakthrough in cryptanalysis.
~ Simon Singh
One newcomer, asked why he had killed his wife and children, told the superintendent: "I don't know why I am telling you all of this. It's none of your business As a matter of fact it was none of the judge's business either. It was a purely family affair.
~ Simon Winchester
I turn around and wrap my arms around his neck. "Whoa, girl," he says taken aback. "I thought we were keepin' this thing between us a secret. I hate to tell you, but a bunch of north siders from Fairfield are right over there. And they're starin' at us" "I don't care. Not anymore" "Why" "You only live once
~ Simone Elkeles
And what do you want right now?" Right now I itch to heal his wounds and forget my own. He touches my cheek with the tips of his fingers. My breath hitches. "Do you want to kiss me, Alex?" I whisper. "Dios mio, I want to kiss you ... to taste your lips, your tongue." He gently traces my lips withthe tips of his fingers. "Do you want me to kiss you? Nobody else would know but the two of us.
~ Simone Elkeles
Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.
~ Simone Elkeles
I'm ready for something private, private and real
~ Simone Elkeles
Ben walks in the room and asks, "What were you guys doing?" Nikki says "Nothing" at the same time I say, "Your sister and I were just makin' out.
~ Simone Elkeles
You see people in torn dresses, lying down and getting up in ramshackle cabins, but who knows what they may have in their cupboards? Who knows?
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
No soldier in that gallant bandHid half as well as he did.He lay concealed throughout the war,And so preserved his gore, O!
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.
~ Siri Hustvedt
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
~ Marcel Proust
Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.
~ Olive Schreiner
Take your love and put it where the sun don't shine.
~ Ray Stevens
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
~ Madonna
Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public.
~ George Harrison
All who love are conspirators.
~ George Weinberg
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
~ Henri de Regnier
I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt?
~ Homaro Cantu
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.
~ Shelley Winters