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Quotes About Secrecy

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.
~ Gelett Burgess
You know, Mad Men is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.
~ Alison Brie
I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.
~ Matthew Weiner
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.
~ Anne Frank
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.
~ Bill Bryson
You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.
~ Bryce Wilson
In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.
~ C.S. Friedman
I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.
~ Carrie Fisher
There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
~ Francis Bacon
A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.
~ Lord Chesterfield
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.
~ Malcolm X
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.
~ Marcel Pagnol
Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.
~ P. L. Travers
What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
~ Oswald Chambers
When the gods come among men, they are not known.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
~ H. P. Lovecraft