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Quotes About Secrecy

I was in the underground until I left Germany.
~ Klaus Fuchs
The Underground Railroad was a spy network for the North and that story has never been told.
~ Misha Green
I think I feel most sexy when I have a matching lingerie set underneath what I'm wearing. I know what's going on and no one else does.
~ Italia Ricci
But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.
~ Peter Mayhew
Osama Bin Laden was found hiding in a house compound in Pakistan by American forces. Muammar Gaddafi was captured by rebel militia while hiding in a drain underneath a road in Libya. And Pakistani starlet Veena Malik was found by the Indian media hiding in a suburban hotel in Mumbai.
~ Rakhi Sawant
It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.
~ John le Carre
I was like little-miss wannabe punk-rocker; I would go home and secretly listen to Pink, and dance around, like, 'Ugh, she understands me so well!'
~ Emily Meade
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.
~ John le Carre
The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
~ Niall Ferguson
I'm a private person, and I don't want people knowing what kind of underwear I like. It's creepy!
~ Carrie Underwood
When you're the child of undocumented immigrants, you learn to keep your mouth shut.
~ Diane Guerrero
In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?
~ Jose Antonio Vargas
As unconventional as John was, he was also old-fashioned. Because of the nature of our relationship, John felt uneasy and never met my mum, which he later regretted. He would hide behind the door until she left.
~ May Pang
Because these credit agencies operate in the dark, they are allowed to be terribly unfair and unaccountable.
~ Brian Schatz
As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.
~ Mira Sorvino
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
No one knows how Donald came to be who he is better than his own family. Unfortunately, almost all of them remain silent out of loyalty or fear. I'm not hindered by either of those.
~ Mary L. Trump
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
~ Charles Dickens
The value of darkness can never be measuredif you don't break its cheap spell secretly treasured
~ Munia Khan
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
I wonder why the vast majority of humanity fears the truth and the unknown.
~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
~ Marina Tsvetaeva
Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
~ Erma Bombeck