Quotes About Secrecy

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

The hooting fowler seldom takes much game. When a man has a project in his mind, digested and fixed by consideration, it is wise to keep it secret till the time that his designs arrive at their despatch and perfection. He is unwise who brags much either of what he will do or what he shall have, for if what he speaks of fall not out accordingly, instead of applause, a mock and scorn will follow him.

Le parecía que, más que enterrar al Txato, lo estaban escondiendo.

A quien dices tu secreto das tu libertad

Trust not thy secret to a confidant, for he too will have his associates and friends; and it will spread abroad through the whole city, and men will call thee weak-headed.

I am about to reveal to you," I commenced, "something which I would not for my life allow to come to other ears. Do you pledge me your eternal silence?" "I do; what is the matter?" "I have been taking hasheesh—Cannabis Indica, and I fear that I am going to die.

You don't really play poker with your cards up.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

El matrimonio es criminal porque mata el misterio.

Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched.

C'era una vera e propria fame in lei, e alle ragazze non si cnfaceva essere fameliche. Le ragazze dovevano sbocconcellare con parsimonia a tavola. e le loro menti dovevano accontentarsi di una dieta morigerata. Ma tutto questo a lei non bastava. Tutta la conoscenza - ogni genere di conoscenza - attirava Faith, e c'era un piacere delizioso, pernicioso, nel carpirla senza essere scoperta.

Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was there as the Childersins' novelty pet, or as a Perfume-detector. Nobody would guess that she was there to look for the person who had stolen her history.

Her moment came. Nobody was looking. She sidled quickly across the deck and lost herself among the crates that clustered at the base of the boat's shuddering, discoloured funnel. The air tasted of salt and guilt, and she felt alive.

Oh, Neverfell, you're just not made for undercover work. You can't lie, my dear, and I can. Leave Madame Appeline and the Doldrums to me. Stay here and keep your head down.

Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.

He brushed a fingertip over his lips and signalled across the room. "Now I'm going to take you home." But it meant something else, too. Grania's cheeks reddened furiously when he made this public-private display, though no one else had noticed.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

The nature of erotic things is secrecy, otherwise they lose their spell.

Cohn removed the letter draft from the Resolute Desk. He placed it in a blue folder marked "KEEP." "I stole it off his desk," he later told an associate. "I wouldn't let him see it. He's never going to see that document. Got to protect the country.

He was hiding there in the dark when Dewey Phillips called the Presley house

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

I have learned that it is pretty hard to keep anything from the newspapers that the newspapers think the public wants to know.

saw D. E. Shaw as a highly secretive hedge fund, the firm viewed

Win was still in hiding. Myron had only gotten one message from him in the past six weeks—an e-mail with a short, simple message: You are in my heart. But Yu and Mee are in my pants. Win. Terese