Quotes About Secrecy

Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.

I think there are a lot of circumstances that surround the Clinton family that aren't explainable, and I will let people go on and research it for themselves. And if they think there is something fishy going on, leave it to them.

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.

Carli's was a small club at the end of a passage between a sporting-goods store and a circulating library. There was a grilled door and a man behind it who had given up trying to look as if it mattered who came in. (Smart-Aleck Kill)

Take it easy, Doc. Around here we only hit our wives in private.

He looked at the corner of the ceiling with an absent stare. I looked at him with a not so absent stare. He looked like a man who could be trusted with a secret—if it was his own secret.

There is a hand behind every curtain,' " she quoted. " 'And a knife in every hand,' finished Mara.

No, killing a man is fairly easy. It is killing him and not getting caught that makes it difficult.

One view is that privacy consists of 'limited accessibility' – a cluster of three related but independent components: secrecy: information known about an individual; anonymity: attention paid to an individual; and solitude: physical access to an individual.

And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)

Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator's first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens.

Un hombre que le cuenta a otro sus aventuras amorosas es un tarado, y si encima es el padre de uno, esa estupidez infantil se convierte en algo siniestro.

The best tycoons are like magicians: they know when to share information and when to withhold. - p141

The best tycoons are like magicians; they know when to share information and when to withhold.

Warren life doesn't make for secrecy.

aber es gab keine Razzien in den Lasterhöhlen mehr. Jedermann wusste, dass Lasterhöhlen jedem wirklich revolutionären Klima abträglich waren.

The truth is, the only difference between good girls and bad girls is: Good girls just haven't been caught yet.

The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not?

The priest I didn't talk to at all, because I didn't want to have to hide his body afterward.

The priest I didn't talk to at all, because I didn't want to have to hide his body afterwards.

The essence of control is to remain hidden from view

If you drop the lamb, just pick it up. Who's going to know?

Sometimes I have this feeling," Walter said, "that he operates on the philosophy that 'what Walter doesn't know won't hurt him.

Deny it to yourself, but never to me.