Quotes About Secrecy

I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

I can secretly sing. But I am extremely shy when it comes to singing in public.

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

There is a dark side of me - it's the side people don't really get to see. I think everyone has that.

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

When I had signed my first film, I had not even told my family about it.

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

I continued to protect him with my silence.

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.

thinks he either kept it in his desk drawer at work or in the glove compartment of his car." Odessa

What for?" "I'm not authorized to discuss the matter with anyone else. Are you related to her?" A pause. "I'm her sister. I'm from Minneapolis." The best thing about lying are the flourishes, I thought. I myself am a world-class practitioner. "And your name is?" "Patty.

I hid the fold of paper in my bra, where I knew it would remain undisturbed.

I spoke the truth to my husband, but not all the truth.

I knew a free black there who had a room, and he took her in. She said when the Guard stopped searching for her, she'd go back to the Grimkés and throw herself on their mercy." He'd been pacing, but now he sat down next to me and finished up the truth quick as he could. "One night she went out to the privy in Radcliff Alley and there was a white man there, a slave poacher named Robert Martin. He was waiting for her.

No," I said, too quickly. I had an outstanding talent for committing deceit, but none for hiding it.

Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory;  show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points;

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.