Quotes About Secrecy

I'm just not going to do it so that we can say that we've done it. And I'm not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is 'please don't tell anyone' or 'let's forget it ever happened'. 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 secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

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

Reckless talk costs lives.

Moral judgements are singularly out of place in espionage. —Graham Greene

His name too goes unmentioned, and he has been described simply as a "local government official." The only salient aspect of his profile, in retrospect, is that he had helped prepare some meals, of which the ingredients included chicken, domestic cat, and snake.

Studying the Templars had become like viewing pornography—many did it, few openly.

Every priest who hears confessions is, by definition, an accessory to ever crime he hears about and does not report to the authorities.

Are you one of the dwellers in the wood? Neither by land nor by sea shall they find us. But, when the time comes, we shall find them.

graying spymaster

Propaganda Due,

Cops do this every day, rifling closets and digging through your dildo drawer.

THE SAFE HOUSE" was our code name for Denny's.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

WAIT! You may be wondering why the red suit. Well, that's so bad guys don't see me bleed.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

Those who fail to understand mystery are doomed to crack it

Apparently, he uses disguises sometimes in the course of his investigations. In his liaison with Mariah, he used them for discretion. He came to her once dressed as a chimney sweep. Quite invigorating, don't you think?

religion was as intimate as lovemaking and ought to be as private.

Yes, but you usually aren't ... Well, I have to keep them covered or else you lose the power of speech

Exactly. Now, why would young Figgy follow her stepmother without making her presence known?

thought of my mother, the beautiful actress who had married in secret and borne a love child, only to have her sweet prince marry another—a woman of his own class who would fill his royal nursery with pedigreed babies while his firstborn grew up motherless.

She often moves anonymously amongst her artist friends. A pointless affectation, really. Everyone ends up discovering who she is in the end, and those who don't—well, if she isn't treated with deference, she can be quite peremptory.

Yes, the lad stole a fox pup but the Spartans had very strict rules against thievery. He hid the animal in his cloak, and rather than allow his misdeed to be found out, he let it gnaw out his vitals while he kept his silence." "And your point is?" he asked acidly. "Simply this: that truth is like that fox pup. If you suffer its ill effects in silence, it can do irreparable harm. Perhaps even kill you.