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Quotes About Secrecy

A man talking fast has something to hide.
~ Haim Bar-Lev
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
~ Herman Melville
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
~ Horace
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.
~ Jane Gardam
A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.
~ John Selden
My main goal was to not tell my mom anything or anyone anything. Even within our family, we like to do it ourselves, we like to be our own boss, and we don't like asking for help.
~ Jillian Hervey
I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.
~ Keri Russell
My mom told me when I was younger that when you jack off all of your dead relatives are watching. But then I figured who were they going to tell.
~ Robert Schimmel
I think people enjoy reading about money, but the people who are in charge of giving me guidance tell me not to talk about it in interviews. Why not? That's what everybody thinks about.
~ Sean Astin
In my opinion, all boyfriends should turn out to be secretly wealthy.
~ Claudia Gray, Evernight
The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
~ James Altucher
I'll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.
~ Leonard Cohen
In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.
~ Sophie Calle
The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
~ Lenny Bruce
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'
~ Lorrie Moore
I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.
~ Michael Lindsay-Hogg
I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.
~ Rick James
You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.
~ Klaus Nomi
I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.
~ Linda Blair
Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back
~ Sonya Sones
What my mother doesnt know wont hurt her
~ Sonya Sones
Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.
~ Karen Marie Moning