Quotes About Secrecy

She hadn't told Klaus about her plan, because she didn't want to give him false hope, so without waking him, she gathered up her grappling hook and tiptoed out of her room.

But I will take a page from the book of the Snow Scout leader, and skip ahead to the next interesting thing that happened, which was very, very late at night, when so many interesting parts of stories happen and so many people miss them because they are asleep in their beds, or hiding in the broom closet of a mustard factory, disguised as a dustpan to fool the night watchwoman. It

A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.

Who you are and what you read is private in a library.

You should never have told them,' said Dicky, who could always be relied upon for excellent advice long after it was any use.

For fear is so unwelcome that it comes only in disguise, and guilt is its favourite one.

I put the gun and the scarf into the brown paper bag again. And I locked it into the desk where I kept unpaid bills, Fiona's jewellery and letters from the bank about my overdraft.

When you're eight years old, nothing is your business.

Because if I'm right about this guy, he's getting better and better at killing. And nobody even knows he exists.

The truth had always been far too dangerous for the public to know. The truth didn't usually set people free, it just got them crazier. Most people just couldn't handle the truth.

By downplaying covert and illegal acts by the government, textbook authors narcotize students from thinking about such issues as the increasing dominance and secrecy of the executive branch. By taking the government's side, textbooks encourage students to conclude that criticism is incompatible with citizenship.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

Me! returned Elinor in some confusion; indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell. Nor I, answered Marianne with energy, our situations then are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing. (27.17)

I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.

I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.

She was obliged to recollect that her seeing the letter was a violation of the laws of honour, that no one ought to be judged or to be known by such testimonies, that no private correspondence could bear the eye of others

Dia mesti mencamkan bahwa tak seorang pun berhak dinilai atau dihakimi berdasarkan korespondensi pribadinya.

and no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of at present.

Such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.

Ninguna de las dos tiene nada que contar; tú porque no comunicas nada, y yo porque nada escondo.

It was some months before Sir Thomas's consent could be received; but in the mean while, as no one felt a doubt of his most cordial pleasure in the connection, the intercourse of the two families was carried on without restraint, and no other attempt made at secrecy, than Mrs. Norris's talking of it every where as a matter not to be talked of at present.