Quotes About Secrecy

It seems to me that the gods are cruel to women who eat fruit, but that is a thought I keep to myself.

in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.

She was trying to whisper, but she might as well have yelled under an echoing bridge.

She locked the cupboard, took her place in the driver's seat and slipped the pistol into her shoulder bag—if she carried a bag, it would always have enough room to conceal a weapon.

The propagandist naturally cannot reveal the true intentions of the principal for whom he acts... That would be to submit the projects to public discussion, to the scrutiny of public opinion, and thus to prevent their success... Propaganda must serve instead as a veil for such projects, masking true intentions.

more lucrative dates. The scheme was not properly disclosed

The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters.

I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me.

We no longer talked about our love affairs, for either they had failed, were failing, or were serious. Above all they were private—how can love be talked about? It is probably the most awful of all the revelations this little life affords.

To tell everything is a very effective means of keeping secrets. Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.

a man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show his very special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except himself alone

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

A man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show all his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is not known to anyone except himself alone.

Ghormley wary about the threat of espionage. No doubt mindful of the role that spies played in the surprise attacks at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, Ghormley wrote his staff, "Loose talk is a stupid habit.… Some would risk the lives of their friends by a silly effort to impress others in public places.

He kept his extralegal shit there. Throwdown guns, burglars' tools, maryjane to plant on suspects.

Elmer was scared. He ran a call-girl ring. He peddled flesh to the L.A. elite. He made biz calls from the Vice squadroom.

I got in the car and headed home, wondering if I would ever tell Kay that I didn't have a woman because sex tasted like blood and resin and suture scrub to me.

I broke my uncle's toy as a kid and never told him about it.

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and protecting sources and methods.

I rarely carried a gun undercover.

My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.