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Quotes About Secrecy

My dad was amazing. He raised five boys. All by himself. Without the rest of us knowing.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.
~ Hugh Grant
I won't talk about who I'm dating. Because it's dumb. It leads to nowhere good. I let everybody else in the media do that for me. It takes the responsibility off my shoulders!
~ Renee Zellweger
I dont talk about who Im dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.
~ Bridget Fonda
Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.
~ Unknown
District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.
~ Suzanne Collins
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
~ Alexander Smith
Anonymous inanely stupid letter,' he said. 'Who has ever sent me an anonymous letter? Who capable of rational thought sends anyone an anonymous letter?
~ Philip Roth
Losing the secret, he feels like a boy again. The boy he'd been before he had the secret. A kind of imp again. He gets from all her naturalness the pleasure and ease of being natural himself. If you're going to be a knight and a hero, you're armored, and what he gets now is the pleasure of being unarmored.
~ Philip Roth
Isn't that what the Mafia does? You give somebody something they can't talk about. Then you've got them.' 'You involve them in a mutual transgression, and you have a mutual corruption. Sure.' So his problem is that he's insufficiently corrupt.' 'Oh, yes. Absolutely. And unsophisticated.
~ Philip Roth
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know.
~ Unknown
Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.
~ Philip Yancey
The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.
~ Philippa Gregory
When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
~ Philippa Gregory
But Anne, do you love him? I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
~ Philippa Gregory
Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?
~ Philippa Gregory
Well hear this,' she hissed in my ear. 'Hear this Mary. I am playing my own game and I don't want you interrupting. Nobody will know anything until I am ready to tell them, and then they will know everything too late.' 'You're going to make him love you?' Abruptly she released me and I gripped my elbow and arm where the bones ached. 'I'm going to make him marry me.' she said flatly. 'And if you so much as breathe a word to anyone, then I will kill you.
~ Philippa Gregory
The truth is the last thing that matters, she said. And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.
~ Philippa Gregory
Every day I dance attendance on one sister or the other and play pander to the king. Every day I deny my own desire, my own passion, I deny my own soul! I make my life a secret to myself. Now you come.
~ Philippa Gregory
counsels. "And never tell anyone that you spoke to me. And be sure that I will never confess it." "Dear
~ Philippa Gregory
Men command the world that they know," she says. "Everything that men know, they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who look for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover, they hug to themselves; they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown?
~ Philippa Gregory
La vergüenza humana surge exclusivamente de la amenaza del descubrimiento.
~ Platon
Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.
~ Unknown
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings
~ Unknown