Quotes About Secrecy

Too many lonely and secret lives.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment

Trishiffany said. "And your child was the 129,285,656,702nd." "Do you know how many hours I spent sneaking around here in the middle

I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all designed to ensure the family absolute privacy. And every newspaper in London carried headlines announcing PRINCESS ANNE HAS OVARIAN CYST REMOVED. I mean you're a young girl reared in heavily guarded seclusion and every beer drinker in every pub knows the precise state of your ovaries.

And they were going to end up in bed. It was just a matter of finding the right time and a half hour of privacy.

I remember asking her to tell me the secret of her charm and her growing success. As usual, she laughed. Nobody knows me. I never say what I think or what I'm planning to do. But I let everyone know that I have high expectations. I don't have to settle for less than the best. That way my value goes up, into the clouds!

Le gusta esa idea. Es una idea que nunca compartirá con nadie. Es una idea que hace que él sea él y no otro.

Même le grand Tolstoï, vous savez ce qu'il disait à Gorki? « Quand je serai à mi-corps dans la tombe, je dirai ce que je pense des femmes, et tout de suite je refermerai sur moi la pierre tombale! »

But real openness to each other also means a real closedness, because only he who can hold a secret can safely share his knowledge. When we do not protect with great care our own inner mystery, we will never be able to form community. It is this inner mystery that attracts us to each other and allows us to establish friendship and develop lasting relationships of love.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him. I

do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.

it would be an ill office in us to pay a visit to the inmost recesses of his mind, as some scandalous people search into the most secret affairs of their friends, and often pry into their closets and cupboards, only to discover their poverty and meanness to the world.

he commonly gave them a hint that he knew much more than he thought proper to disclose. This last circumstance alone may, indeed, very well account for his character of wisdom; since men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand. A grand secret, upon which several imposers on mankind have totally relied for the success of their frauds.

I was a screen-- I was their protector. The more I saw, the less they would.

there was always a sort of tacit understanding among women, born of the solidarity of the sex, that they should discover or invent lovers for each other...

With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners.

There was something deep within him that he had absolutely shown to no one—to the companion of these walks in particular not a bit more than he could help; but he was none the less haunted, under its shadow, with a dire apprehension of its publicity.

Existía un secreto en Bly… quizá un familiar inmencionable recluido en un insospechado confinamiento?

on so short an acquaintance remains shut up in his breast.  His mother, I know, went to his door

He should see nothing, he should learn nothing; for him she would always wear a mask.

secret of what passed between him and the strange girl who would have sacrificed her marriage to him on so short an acquaintance remains

of a spying servant, on the other side of

An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.