Quotes About Secrecy

In Chinatowns, the lives of all those paper sons were fragile and easily torn. Everyone's name was false. Everyone hoped not to be found out and sent back. Everyone clustered together so they wouldn't stand out.

But already parts of her life were curtained off.

In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows. Although people usually know what they have sown, our national experience of blowback is seldom imagined in such terms because so much of what the managers of the American empire have sown has been kept secret.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!

My work had been successful. I cannot disclose the nature of the operation as the agency may have other work to do on it.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men

Here is the charming evening, the criminal's friend;It comes like an accomplice, with stealthy tread.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

If there was something that all the time had in common, what your English teacher would call a "theme," it would be this: Don't get caught.

Sam and Bill and I would cut a hole in a watermelon and fill it with rum so Jimmy didn't know we were drinking. "Boy, you men sure like your watermelon," Jimmy would say.

Wednesday night was the night that you went out with your wives, that way nobody was seen out with his cumare, his mistress, whatever you want to call it. Everybody knew not to be out with their cumare on Wednesday night. It was like an unwritten rule.

Now I understood why Russell would ask me to drive him to different places and wait for him in the car while he did a little business in somebody's house or in a bar or a restaurant. They did all their business in person and in cash, not over the phone or with banks. Russell Bufalino was as big as Al Capone had been, maybe bigger. I couldn't get over it. I

As hard as it is to believe today, people didn't really know that there was a mob organization in those days.

They supplied me the piece and they had one guy right there to take it from me after the thing and get in one car with it and drive away. His only job was to break the piece down and destroy it.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

You know, you should never catch a spy. Discover him and then control him, but never catch him. A spy causes far more trouble when he's caught. Harold Macmillan

Honor among thieves, perhaps. Honor among spies, never.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are

Towards that small and ghostly hour, [Mr. Cruncher] rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature.

So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.