Quotes About Secrecy

cautioning Roger upon pain of death not to utter a sound, we made our way cautiously into the villa and slipped like shadows into my bedroom.

Every man has his moral backside too, which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

You got a harem of seventy girls, you don't get to know any of them very well.

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.

I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.

Never tell your resolution beforehand.

Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.

If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.

In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city, everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Svaka istinska, velika strast traži samo?u i bezimenost. ?ovek koji služi svojoj strasti želi da ostane nevi?en i neznan, nasamo sa predmetom svoje strasti, i o svemu drugom voli i ume više i bolje da govori nego o tome što je glavni predmet njegovih misli i želja. ?ak i porok ima svoj stid i svoje obzire, iako naopake i neobi?ne.

Things only ferment and fester in the dark.

Testing, she lifted her hips, let them fall. Oh, for God's sake. We can't do this on a talking bed. Everybody in the house will know what's going on in here. Enjoying himself, he nuzzled at her throat. I believe they already suspect we have sex. Maybe, but that's different than having the bed yell out, 'Whoopee! Was it any wonder he adored her? he thought. Watching her face, he trailed a finger over her breast. We'll have quiet, dignified sex. If sex is dignified it's not being done right.

he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

I don't want to hear from Traffic that my husband was hotdogging the skyways in his minichopper. You won't. I bribe too well.

She took a small device out of her bag, slipped it into her pocket. Micro recorder? Roarke clucked his tongue. I believe that's illegal. Not to mention rude. I don't know what you're talking about. And unnecessary, he added. He turned his wrist, tapped a tiny button on the side of his watch. This one is much more efficient. I should know. I manufacture both brands. He smiled as the car stopped at the edge of a small clearing

She wished she had candy, but she hadn't settled on a new hiding place to thwart the nefarious Candy Thief.