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Quotes About Secrecy

We still kissed frequently, usually a cluster of small pecks. An acronym for our early deep kisses. Which in a way was more intimate because only we knew what it stood for.
~ Miranda July
We learned to be discreet. It helped that nobody really cares about anyone but themselves anyway.
~ Miranda July
Ma comes to stand beside me, and our intruder makes a clucking sound of disapproval. "This one worries me, Ranee. She's very secretive.
~ Mitali Perkins
CIA case officers, or COs,
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
This is the nameless land, they say. To you, who for reasons unknowable glimpse here these words. Good people, do not mistake the terms of the agreement: Do not ask men for the story of the nameless land. Do not move lips and tongue in an imitation of the tongue of the nameless land. Do not treat as men those who are imprisoned in the nameless land.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Su otro propósito en esa aventura boliviana era alejarse de Fidel, un secreto a voces nunca mencionado en los festejos al Che.
~ Moisés Naím
PHILINTE: Il est bien des endroits, où la pleine franchise Deviendrait ridicule, et serait peu permise; Et, parfois, n'en déplaise à votre austère honneur, Il est bon de cacher ce qu'on a dans le cÅ"ur. Serait-il à propos, et de la bienséance, De dire à mille gens tout ce que d'eux, on pense? Et quand on a quelqu'un qu'on hait, ou qui déplaît, Lui doit-on déclarer la chose comme elle est? ALCESTE: Ouy..
~ Moliere
Through the green slats of their private look-out post they could quiz the adult world, queer mixture of stupidity and power, getting on with its incomprehensible affairs, unconscious of spies in the undergrowth.
~ Unknown
hermetic world.
~ Unknown
Truthfully, he would break every rule he had, every promise he'd ever made, and go to all the trouble in the world for this girl and she had no idea. None.
~ Molly O'Keefe
As usual, there were no obvious signs. And it would be a secret that my boyfriend had punched me in the face and terrorized me with a rifle for two and half hours - because it was more important that Mom keep up appearances than keep her children safe.
~ Unknown
If your own breast cannot conceal, How can another better hold?
~ Unknown
It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed
~ Murasaki Shikibu
All yogis are automatically the candidates initiated into the art of secrecy. Simply, because silence is the only main basis for attaining mental and spiritual powers.
~ Unknown
Hattatin biri üç ayri tarzda yazi yazarmis: Birincisini kendisi okuyabilirmis ama baskalari okuyamazmis, ikincisini hem kendisi hem de baskalari okuyabilirmis, üçüncüsünu ne kendisi okuyabilirmis ne de baÅŸkalar?. O üçüncü hat, benim.
~ Unknown
There's a kind of secrecy in the world at this time of night, as if I'm allowed to see mysteries hidden in daylight.
~ Nalini Singh
Mercants aren't known to be assassins." "Could be because we're very, very good at it
~ Nalini Singh
Sahara's lips curved. "I've always found the Ghost mysterious and deliciously sexy.
~ Nalini Singh
I'm old enough now, and I want someone to play with like you play with Janvier and Raphael does with Elena. Even Dmitri plays with Honor." This seemed to fascinate him. "The rules are secret in each game. I want to have secret rules with a woman who . . ." A long pause. "A woman who knows me, understands what I am, and who wants to have secret rules with me.
~ Nalini Singh
El hombre no estaba en el Silencio, solo era muy, muy, muy, bueno mostrando solo lo que deseaba
~ Nalini Singh
Lifting up her head, she kissed his throat. "How do you feel about carrying on a secret affair with the Guild Director?" She couldn't let him go. Not without a fight. "I prefer the world know full well I consider a woman mine." An uncompromising answer. "Secrets just come back to bite you in the ass.
~ Nalini Singh
And though she loves nothing more than the sight of her handsome prince, his wife sometimes dreams about that unknown lover, and, on such occasions, he comes to her. Even now, this very evening, the prince is waiting outside her bedchamber door until it is fully dark, when he will slip quietly in...
~ Unknown
If Arnold's leap to the British was to succeed, Peggy must play the innocent as his cheerful and charming young wife.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
interruption or a keep-behind-a-closed-door
~ Unknown