Quotes About Secrecy

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch ... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order ... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

wishing I could read his face, but it was hidden

Apparently, a good friend helps you bury a body. A best friend brings their own shovel and doesn't ask questions.

Privacy,is what you shut your mouth about,Denial is what you shut your eyes against.

Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know.

Listen, do you think we could not tell…everyone?" Megan said. "I think it would just make everything harder." What with the massive victory party they would throw and all , she thought.

I want a hands-off rule on all my stuff. Including my bike." "Okay…" "And I want everyone to stop calling me Megan C Cups behind my back." Doug's jaw went slack as he flushed. "How did you know about that?" Megan raised her eyebrows. "All right, fine. Is that all?" Doug said.

Our culture may be highly sexualised, promiscuous and pornographic, but men and women will go to extraordinary lengths to hide their sexual activity. They value honour and monogamy: very few men are prepared to leave their wife for a mistress, and there is some evidence to suggest that people value sexual fidelity more than ever before now that so many other aspects of life cannot be relied upon.

In politics, money talks—when it must in public, but preferably in private, with hidden handshakes, closed-door meetings and under-the-table kickbacks.

Surely, I find myself daydreaming, there is something, some substance already in common use, that women could drink after sex or at the end of the month, that would keep them unpregnant with no one the wiser.

Er zijn tijden waarin je iets wat je wilt verbergen maar het beste vol in het zicht kunt zetten.

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.

It is something of a tragedy for young girls of good family that they cannot carry on a love-affair in a simple, straightforward way, in secret, below their station if need be, as do their sisters of humbler origin, who can place their affections wherever they wish without risk of misdirecting a family fortune or making a 'bad match'.

I have found that the most intimate relationships allow for a great deal of privacy within them.

Daedalus, I have found that the most intimate relationships allow for a great deal of privacy within them.

People knowing your private business gave them power over you" -Anya

I go to Marian Wallace's dorm room, and I throw the book on her bed. I tell her, 'Look, you can sell this. It's worth a lot of money.' And she looks at the book dubiously, and she says, 'Is it hot?' And I say, 'No, it belongs to Daniel, and he wants you to have it, but you can never say where it came from. Bring it to an auction house or a rare-books dealer. Claim you found it in a used-books bin somewhere.

knows why she was here or who she came to see or why she decided to kill herself by swimming into the icy waters of the Alice Island Sound in December. That is to say, no one knows the specific reason. They know that Marian Wallace is black, that she is twenty-two years old, and that she had a twenty-five-month-old toddler.

In high school, you read The Scarlet Letter, and it occurs to you that this is what the Internet is like.

Do you know where she lives?" "Could get there blindfolded." "Did he just blush?" Talbert asked Marc as Lucien strode over to his black stallion and swung up into the saddle. "I heard that," he retorted.

There was no relaxing when you lived a secret.

I'm not Barbara Gordon. I have to keep remembering that. Tonight, I'm not Barbara. Tonight, I'm not the Police Commissioner's daughter. Tonight, I'm the one who pored over the details of the confidential police and reports when her dad wasn't looking. I'm the one who recognized the vintage costumes you wear. Tonight? Tonight, I'm Batgirl.

A man with no motive is a man no one suspects. Always keep your enemies confused. If they don't know who you are or what you want, they can't predict your next move.