Quotes About Secrecy

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Angela was lying to them. Why? Why bother lying when she could have been dismissive? Why say there's nothing about a lock when everything about your voice and body says there was definitely something about a lock, and that the lock was important?

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

Nous autres banquiers nous sommes un peu comme les prêtres, Monseigneur. Vous confessez les âmes ; nous confessons les bourses, et sommes nous aussi tenus au secret.

Eyes Only is more than just a voice and eyes on some cable hack...it's more like a network. People who help Eyes Only, they're all loyal, and they don't talk to anybody about anything, if you're not one of them.

He didn't want to say the word alive. And not just because it seemed so silly, putting that on an official record, but also because, alone in his cabin, it suddenly felt like the ship was listening. He didn't want it to hear him.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

When you think about the CIA, you probably imagine two of our most popular and enduring myths. The first is that our mission is to search the globe for any conceivable threat to the United States, and the second is that we have the power to perform the first. This myth is the by-product of an organization, which, by its very nature, must exist and operate in secrecy. Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

What better place to hide than among that part of society that no one else even wants to acknowledge.

They realized that the best way to mask what they were doing was to hide it in plain sight. Instead of lying about the sweeps themselves, they just lied about what they were sweeping for.

You must not tell anyone, what I am about to tell you.

We cackled like two old crones, remembering a secret past. The laughter was sour and not really directed at white women. It was a traditional ruse that was used to shield the Black vulnerability; we laughed to keep from crying.

I guess what they say is true. Anything the government wants to hide, they stick it in New Mexico

Hiding out in some cheap motel with a boy? Did my parents really think I would do something that immature and, I'm sorry, completely skanky?

They could be making her sleep in a closet under the stairs!

I wasn't about to admit to him that I'd never had a boyfriend. You just don't go around saying things like that to totally hot guys, even if they're dead.

Because some things are meant to be private.

I staggered into the bathroom to change into my pj's - hey, I was pretty sure Jesse wasn't spying on me, but he still hadn't told me how he'd died, so I wasn't taking any chances. He could have been hanged, you know, for Peeping Tomism, which I believed happened occasionally a hundred and fifty years ago.