Quotes About Secrecy

He remembered a conversation he'd once had with a Chief Constable some years back, when he asked the Chief if in his experience he believed there was such a thing as the 'perfect murder'. The Chief had replied that there was. 'It's the one we never hear about,' he said.

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

ëCursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.

After Ehud was gone, Eglonís servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.

“Stand at the entrance to the tent,” he said, “and if anyone comes and asks you, ëIs there a man here?í say, ëNo.í”

and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then Ruth went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

“Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,

In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.

But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.

“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission or charge. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.

and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ëThis is what David did.í” And this was Davidís custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.í”

Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.

Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, for they dared not be seen entering the city.

But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

Then the manís wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.

Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.

The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ëNo eye will see me,í he covers his face.