Quotes About Secrecy

Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.

If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.

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

But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.

Mr. Carton," she answered, after an agitated pause, "the secret is yours, not mine, and I promise to respect it.

Es un hecho maravilloso y digno de reflexionar sobre él, que cada uno de los seres humanos es un profundo secreto para los demás.

Mr. Bucket and his fat forefinger are much in consultation together under existing circumstances. When Mr. Bucket has a matter of this pressing interest under his consideration, the fat forefinger seems to rise, to the dignity of a familiar demon. He puts it to his ears, and it whispers information; he puts it to his lips, and it enjoins him to secrecy; he rubs it over his nose, and it sharpens his scent; he shakes it before a guilty man, and it charms him to his destruction.

But the shadow of the manner of these Defarges was dark upon himself, for all that, and in his secret mind it troubled him greatly.

To return to poor Darnay," said Carton. "Don't tell Her of this interview, or this arrangement. It would not enable Her to go to see him. She might think it was contrived, in case of the worst, to convey to him the means of anticipating the sentence.

Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same, speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home.

I am afraid to think of what I might have done, on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.

And this is another spell against which the shedder of blood for ever strives in vain. There are fifty doors by which discovery may enter. With infinite pains and cunning, he double locks and bars forty-nine of them, and cannot see the fiftieth standing wide open.

Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow

They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the house with a damask nose, which concealment did not appear to have ever preyed upon.

Only one soul was to be seen, and that was Madame Defarge— who leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.

They passed very quietly along the yard; for no one was there, though many heads were stealthily peeping from the windows.

I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror

eighteen years a secret and unaccused prisoner in the Bastille;

I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.

Few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. ... I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror

every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

had considered it a little while, she said to the tiny woman, And you keep watch over this every day? And she cast down her eyes,

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

cada uno de los seres humanos es un profundo secreto para los demás.