Quotes About Secrecy

Back then, I was obsessed with dying, because I secretly wanted to live forever.

There are only one or two repeats in the whole book. So that got me thinking polyalphabetic substitution.

There's a witch under this hair.

That's my little secret, Christina," he says. "I am always painting myself.

This is our privy. Don't ever let Mrs. Byrne catch you using the one in the house." She pronounces catch "kitch.

Love Is: being able to keep your fucking mouth shut.

My friend did not want her suspicion—which sustained the possibility that her husband both was and was not having an affair—to disappear by exposing it.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

Hitler's ability to keep a secret was unparalleled.

The knife in his boot and the Smith & Wesson strapped to his ribs had been enough to get him through the past ten years flying intercept missions with the DEA into South America, breaking up the drug trade. Surely they would be enough to see him through this little exercise in neighborhood push and shove. But just as surely, he didn't want to talk about them.

and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.

I would rather they did not speak of it at all, until I am out of the district." Mrs. Bennet was all amazement. "Until you are out of the district, child! What else are people to speak of when they hear you are to marry a man so rich, so highly placed in society, so... rich?

head. "You will not tell?" She shook her head again. "But how else can we believe you? You mean you are willing to be shot as a spy rather than give his name?" "Would his name

Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end.

But then some people give off a strange sense of preoccupation, as if there is something in their lives so important to them that they have to keep it silent, and close. And to keep this thing close, they make sacrifices.

She thought I hadn't seen her, but she's no good at hiding her intentions. She can't help tiptoeing around with a finger to her lips at key moments.

Anyone who did not master conspiratorial techniques was considered a kustar' – an amateur; amateurism was anathema to Ulyanov and he was obsessive in eradicating

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the bastards who beat the bastards, unless it was all just dumb luck.

James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secret service from the start ....

Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.

You see, my poor fellow, the hearts of women and she-cats are abysses that neither men nor toms will ever fathom.

its no surprise to me that anyone hardly tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel so strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

I'm never going to get married. I'm going to be a ballet-dancer. But don't tell anybody.