Quotes About Secrecy

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.

When I first started making the videos, I didn't tell anyone about it.

When you think of the Cold War, there are various places where you imagine espionage. Espionage crossroads of the Cold War bring you to the backstreets of Berlin, or Vienna.

If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.

It's not what you project... it's what you don't show.

Honesty is overrated. As someone once said, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the heart.' " "It was the Duc de Richelieu," said Lillian, who had read the same book of philosophy during their schoolroom lessons. "And the accurate quote is, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State .' " "He was French, though," Daisy argued. "I'm sure he meant the heart as well.

If you tell anyone about this, you little imp…you'll pay.

If there is any man in England who is more experienced than Lord St. Vincent at sneaking around for a tryst, I'd like to know who.

It was Evie, Lady St. Vincent, her red hair arranged in in a loose chignon. "I've been looking for you," she said. "We haven't seen you for days,"Lillian said. "Where have you been?" Evie's color deepened. "With St. Vincent." "What have you been... Oh, good God. Never mind.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. — [Sara]

the best way to hide in plain sight was to get fat.

When I said you were safe, he says softly, a hint of wickedness in his voice, I meant from everyone but me.

In my book, privacy is like a great pair of high heels. To be cherished.

No one here has to know who I really am. Ever. They can never know. We disappeared with my father, our historic bloodline ended forever.

I've committed many despicable acts in my life—and if I enjoyed them enough, I would do them again—but I would never dream of spoiling the ending to a book.

Let me ask around. In the meantime, you need to keep that trinket out of sight, and you need to be careful." "I'm always careful." Garadin gave me the look. You know the one. "Whenever I can," I added.

I'd been brief with her, not wanting her to stress over me and Lia. I mean, she knew I'd narrowly escaped death in freeing Lia from Castel o Paratore, but she didn't know all of the details. That, like, I'd almost been killed a dozen times. You just didn't tell your mom that kind of thing—not if you were trying to keep her from rushing you off to some safe tower.

Off course, if Steven had a wife in the attic, like Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, that, I thought, would be another matter entirely. But the very idea made me laugh. His building had no attic, and his one small closet couldn't even hold a skeleton. It was too packed with clothes, his and mine.

If I don't tell anyone, it'll never be true.

Am I a vampire?" Massie asked. "Huh?" Alicia asked. "Then why are you keeping me in the dark?

Don't ever tell anyone where you bought something. If you get a complement say, "Thank you. I got it in Europe.

There are words we say in the dark. There are words we speak in the light. And sometimes they're the same words.

A code may be used for secrecy, but also for brevity and truncation. Shorthand is a code in precisely this way and so, often, is modern-day texting.