Quotes About Secrecy

it was one of those questions you couldn't ask in case he were to tell the truth.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

No man knows my history.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.