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Quotes About Secrecy

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.
~ Osama bin Laden
Women found in me a man who could keep a love secret.
~ Osamu Dazai
Women found in me a man who could keep could keep a love secret.
~ Osamu Dazai
Sober, he would regard his wife with amor—the kind of amor the oldest sisters, Margarita and Isabel, knew took place at the end of the evening, when they were all supposed to be asleep and not listening for bedroom noises, agitated springs, gasping, rocking movements, moans of pleasure, or any other such unparental sounds, drifting down the halls, as if they were wall-less and not a single cicada nor a rushing wind existed in all the world.
~ Oscar Hijuelos
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never show the depth of your life to anyone but God.
~ Oswald Chambers
the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so prevalent in psychoanalytic institutes. The "paranoiagenic" (Jaques, 1976) atmosphere of psychoanalytic institutes, the
~ Unknown
Men object to the surveillance of a wife, and most justly; but they seem to forget that it is nothing compared to the unscrupulous espionage of a courtesan.
~ Ouida
Mi vida no valdrá nada si la gente de Félix Díaz se entera de que soy el autor de México bárbaro".
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
She slid her arms around him, rested her head against his chest. "You really are a softie, aren't you?" He held her fast, kissed her damp hair. "Don't tell anyone." "Your secret is safe with me.
~ Pamela Clare
When it came to keeping a secret, that kid was a time bomb.
~ Unknown
I am." A soft hand stroked his cheek. "I love what you are." "I saw your eyes, D. When I went feral." "Well, yeah. Under the circumstances, I had reason to be afraid. But, for heaven's sake, Tighe, it's your own fault you scare us humans. You guys are so damned secretive, no one knows you even exist. So of
~ Unknown
clanking against the side of a stainless steel pot—signaled that her mother was busy in the kitchen preparing breakfast. Easing the door shut, Brianna leaned against it and closed her eyes. To pull this off, Brianna couldn't just act calm, she had to be calm. Otherwise, her mother would surely notice. But at only thirteen, she'd become pretty good at finding ways around her mother's
~ Unknown
Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.
~ Pat Frank
Adam wants to know what took you so long? "Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete stranger.
~ Patricia Briggs
I know that, too," he said, his voice tender. "You should know that you can't hide things from me." "Good," I said, my voice fierce. "Good. Then you know, you know I love you.
~ Patricia Briggs
Wizards are a secretive lot.
~ Patricia Briggs
I don't think you're supposed to be able to get at that information," said Leslie. "Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily.
~ Patricia Briggs
Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.
~ Patricia Briggs
Argued with your back-fence neighbor," Adam said, his voice very gentle. "And watched him when he wasn't looking," I agreed. "Because every once in a while, especially after a full moon hunt, he'd forget that I could see in the dark, and he'd run around naked in the backyard." He laughed silently. "I never forgot you could see in the dark," he admitted.
~ Patricia Briggs
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
~ Patrick Henry
Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
~ Patrick Henry
He was in his secret room in the heart now. Having entered he could be bold. A man hasn't to be on his best behavior in Heaven; he can kick the furniture around. He can stoop down and picks up lumps of mortality without being born again to die.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
For the first time in his life, he was in complete control. He knew what he did was wrong, but there weren't any consequences, no punishment, no one to answer to. How could there be? No one knew but him.
~ Unknown