Quotes About Secrecy

Duke: And what's her history?Viola: A blank, my lord. She never told her love,But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought,And with a green and yellow melancholy,She sat like Patience on a monument,Smiling at grief.

The old fantastical duke of dark corners.

I wear notMy dagger in my mouth.

We have done but greenly,In hugger-mugger to inter him.

In nature's infinite book of secrecyA little I can read.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

When aren't we acting?' he asked in his diary. 'When aren't we concealing? Would you like me to have been a fly on your wall yesterday? Did you do nothing shameful? Of course you did. The version of ourselves that we present to the world bears no resemblence to the truth. If we knew the truth about each other we could take noone seriously. There isn't one of us who could afford to be caught. That's all life is. Trying not to be found out.

we had people who had authentic identity cards ask for the cards of people who had already died, but who had not yet been registered as dead by the registrar. This was a very safe way to help people get good identity cards. People who were seized often said that their card had been forged—which wasn't true—in order to protect the others.

Did Curly have a right, however weak or strong his vision might have been, to keep it secret? To not live it? Did not all the people own the strength in it? *

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

Everyone is like a moon , and he has a dark side which he never shows to anybody .

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

Guardei o segredo da Catadora de Lixo e nunca contei ao filho que ela passara um longo tempo acompanhando seus movimentos. Mas nunca mais fui à casa dele, pois a Catadora de Lixo, cuja memória eu prezo muito, nunca atravessou sequer a soleira daquela casa. Embora ele parecesse tão abastado, ela é que era realmente rica.

Perhaps this was just evidence that his body was adapting to the secret room. Perhaps it was necessary to rid oneself of everything that was superfluous in order to immerse completely in this airless, soundproof, narrow space shrouded in the fear of discovery and arrest. In recompense for a mind that was able to retain everything, every memory, perhaps it was necessary that the body gradually fade away.

I'll keep you safe, here in my secret room.

If he had attacked me outright, I might have been able to defend myself. Instead, he exposed my secret as if offering himself to me. I was left mute, listening to my heart pounding in my chest.

Grey faces in libraries around the world mask inner lives of considerable emotional volatility. We know

He wondered briefly if that was how it always was with magic. It started out vital and potent, and then, over time, as men and women fought to possess it, hide it, steal it, and decipher it, it grew more and more obscure.

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

If you have to keep something a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!