Quotes About Secrecy

A alma toda de um vidente pode ficar atrás dos dentes?

the myth of the secret society, if not the secret society itself, played a major role in nineteenth-century European history.

I TEGO ARCANA DEI (BEGONE! I CONCEAL THE SECRETS OF GOD.)

To a [conspiracy theory] believer nothing happens by accident, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected.

Shiloah's compulsive need to act under a thick cloak of secrecy became the source of myriad legends. His friends used to joke that once he hailed a taxi. "Where to?" the driver asked. Shiloah answered: "It's a state secret.

Except for carrying a sign that read I AM A SPY, Mordechai Vanunu seemed to have done all he could to expose his secret life.

Ladies, we're going on a stakeout.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

You might think that, I could not possibly comment

Most awkwardly, in the middle of all this [the Vietnam War], TIME reported that a group secretly financed by the CIA had funded Graham's Latin American crusade, which came as a complete surprise to Graham and prompted a repudiation: "I would never accept funds from any government agency," he declared, "especially the CIA.

Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts; therefore, he did not risk writing them down. "I'd rather take it to my grave," he said. And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie," he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.

Secrecy is a fragile state, a single time undone and forever finished.

Professor Snape

Many rich men don't allow their wives to come to their office. Many women don't know what their husbands do.

Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.

If people knew that I really am what I say I am,' he said, 'you know they'd never forgive me.' 'Don't worry,' I said, 'Your lack of a secret is safe with us.

Quindi esistono davvero creature che ti mangiano?» «Non in questo ripostiglio» rispose sua madre, con inquietante evasività.

Barbara, shut up," said her son Luker. "You know very well why it's a private funeral." "Why?" "Because we are the only people in Mobile who would have come. There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown.

One of our favourite things to do was to go behind the tuckshop and smoke cigarettes.

Good. Now I'm going to go sit down at the table before P.K. uncovers the nuclear launch codes.

The way Mr. Ronan had acted seemed to be of a piece with this woman's behaviour. I felt a need to see where she was leading. It was none of her business, so I lied.

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know what crimes have been committed. - The Man in the Iron Mask (155)