Quotes About Secrecy

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other.

Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.

I've always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I've seen things I will never talk about because I'd be a fool to. You can't lay out that world in words.

My ancestors had to keep their customs secret for fear of death or persecution, so it's common to be secretive and discreet about Regla de Ocha. But it's my family's spirituality, so I don't want to keep it secret.

I'm not big into spoilers. Just personally, I don't want anything spoiled.

I've had innumerable affairs. I've never spoken about any of my women.

I've never met Snowden, I've never spoken with him personally. I mean, he's extremely smart. Very, very smart. I guess he was a lot less naive than I was.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore.

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.