Quotes About Secrecy

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

They love least that let men know their loves.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Never suppose that either the evil or the good that you do will remain secret, however strict may be your enclosure.

She talked about work; he talked about school. Carmella mentioned that she might be up for a promotion by the end of the year, and Adam said that Group, in the end, might work out after all. And during that whole time, they told each other everything except for the part that they didn't. Mother and son were as honest as two people lying to each other could be.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth--far from it. For it is the whole experience of mankind that sexual life is always, and must always be, hidden by veils of varying degrees of opacity, if it is to be humanized into something beyond a mere animal function. What is inherently secretive, that is to say self-conscious and human, cannot be spoken of directly; the attempt leads only to crudity, not to truth.

Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations.