Quotes About Secrecy

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Something lurked inside the truth.

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

It's a simple truth that a secret is something you're ashamed of.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!

if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

The truth will be never shared to anyone. They have no bravery to know the truth. You will help us. We will help you.