Quotes About Secrecy

She said: "It's funny about 'passing.' We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it.

It struck him that the world was full of professional snoops, and it was sad that Americans didn't even trust Americans anymore.

He looked around the crowded room. "The walls have ears." "Actually, they have termites. And no one here cares what we're talking about. Look, Mr. Macia, you have offered me two million dollars and it will not surprise you that I could use the money, but—

When they send someone to interrupt a private conversation, it means that they weren't able to eavesdrop.

CIA types are so into deceit, deception, double and triple crosses, paranoia, and bullshit, that you never knew what they knew

If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.

Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love.

In the quiet serenity of the night that did not seem very important; it was only important that she should shut up and not spoil his evening. "Now you get on and start her up, and shut up talking." She opened her mouth to give as good as she got, but said nothing. What he had told her was incredible; and yet it was what she had secretly feared for some time.

Only general officers were entitled to know our true rank. To all others our standard reply to the inevitable question, "What is your rank?" was simply a firm, "My rank is confidential, but at this moment I am not outranked."39

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

People hide the truth because they're afraid.

Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.

I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.

I've written a couple raps in my day, in my own music career, that people don't know a lot about.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.

There's something mysterious about ninjas because they're deadly and they're scary.

I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.

Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.

I like being mysterious as an actress.