Quotes About Secrecy

He could not help himself; whether it brought him comfort or misery, he felt he had no choice now but to speak of Fraser—and Quarry was the only man in London to whom he could so speak.

Respectability had its uses. I wondered idly how many spymasters had thought of using elderly ladies? You didn't hear about old women as spies—but then again, that might merely indicate how good they were at it.

Escorted by Murtagh, who was disguised as my groom, I had barely made it out of sight of the prison before sliding off my horse and being sick in the snow.

oh, wait." Turning, he seized the wig he'd taken off earlier from his desk and thrust it into Grey's hands. "Disguise," he said, and smiled briefly. "You rather take the eye, John. Best if people don't notice you on the street." He snatched up the hat and crammed it on his own bare head, then unlocked the door and pulled it open, impatiently gesturing Grey ahead of him.

What, she's taken the hairs off her honeypot?

But if he knew Grey so intimately as to make what I had witnessed plausible in the name of friendship alone, then why had he not told me of him before? Why go to such lengths to see the man, as soon as he learned that Grey was in Jamaica?

If Jamie could take Lord John Grey as a lover, and hide it from me, he wasn't remotely the man I thought he was. There had to be some other explanation.

The wean might be about to fall face-first into the fire, but nobody—save maybe Ian—was going to know it, if it killed him. Ian

Your wife?" I said, goggling at him. He flushed deeply and looked away. If I had been in any doubt about the nature of the look I had seen him give Jamie, I wasn't any longer.

I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.

I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.

When you lose, a lot of things that should stay in the dressing room get leaked.

Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No.

I've got ambitions. I've always been very ambitious. But I think there's something nice about not saying all of my dreams, in case they don't happen and then it's just really embarrassing.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

It's very hard to keep an uncrackable encryption if you share it with the government.

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

Anything done in secret is more likely to result in terrible errors.

Every American should understand that their vote is secret.

I guess I don't want everyone to know what I'm doing every second.

It is truly jarring to Japanese ears to hear the most sacred words, the most secret heart experiences, thrown out in promiscuous audiences. "Dost thou feel the soil of thy soul stirred with tender thoughts? It is time for seeds to sprout. Disturb it not with speech; but let it work alone in quietness and secrecy," writes a young samurai in his diary.

Lock your freaks.

Wer die Geheimnisse des Bettes verrät, verdient die Liebe nicht.