Quotes About Secrecy

Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.

If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone.

Your personal matters are always a subject of entertainment for others.

Learn to keep your private life private, or they will make your life their entertainment.

Everyone has three lives; a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Secrecy breeds distrust. You don't just expect to be trusted, you earn someone's trust by being open and honest.

I hate when someone I'm close with hides something from me. It feels like I can't be trusted.

Erect, isolated, having at her side her husband and myself, the Duchesse stood on the left of the staircase, already wrapped in her Tiepolo cloak, the collar fastened by the clasp of rubies, being devoured by the eyes of women and of men seeking to chance upon the secret of her elegance and her beauty.

that men can be being sincere with their friends, and even with themselves, when they speak warmly of a woman's kindness to them, even though, to tell the truth, their relationship is undermined secretly, in a way they do not confess to others or which is revealed involuntarily in response to questions, to inquiries, by a painful anxiety.

The words Gisèle's eyes promised would be spoken to me as soon as Albertine left us alone together were not to be uttered,