Quotes About Secrecy

A secret, Teccam explains, is true knowledge actively concealed.

but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

Secrets are the cornerstone of civilisation.

A thin layer of dust covered everything, and I doubted anyone had been in the room for decades. I have a vast weakness for secret things.

There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard. We

if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

A secret, Teccam explains, is true knowledge actively concealed. Philosophers

Hem düÅŸündüm ki, senin fark?na varmas? için yanl?? çalmak zorundaysan, o zaman hiç fark?na varmas?n, daha iyi. Görüyor musunuz, ben böyleyim.

His lordship has something

I could fix the two of you up, assuming you don't mind the fact that he is into sadism and just got out of jail for accidentally leaving his last lover tied up in a basement for two months.

He was there for you, and yet at the same time he was inaccessible. You felt there was a secret core in him that could never be penetrated, a mysterious center of hiddenness. To imitate him was somehow to participate in that mystery, but it was also to understand that you could never really know him.

Imagine knowing that you're good at something, so good that the world would be in awe of you if they could see your work, and then keeping yourself a secret from the world.

Wherever he was, I was with him now. I had given him my word to say nothing, and the longer I kept his secret, the less I belonged to myself.

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.

We recognized the face he was wearing as a mask from our own collections. The happy mask we carry in our back pockets, and like bank robbers whip out when we want to steal some privacy or make an emotional getaway.

if Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not equivalent to the yearly per capita income of a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.

If Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not equivalent to the yearly per capita income of a small sub-Saharan African nation like Detroit.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

What times are these when a conversation is almost a crime because it includes so much made explicit?

Harriet, Georgiana, and Bess formed a bond so tight that Harriet would later say it "made it a rule never to conceal anything great or small from each other than concerned ourselves, and never to import anything that concerned our respective friends unless by their desire or consent." These women formed a confederacy of feminine freedom-a freedom they vigorously exercised.

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

In Russia, everything is a secret, but nothing is a mystery.

A Friend Will Help You Move. A Real Friend Will Help You Move a Body.