Quotes About Secrecy

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

My earbuds were in, but I wasn't playing music. I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

If everyone was really having sex, they why was it paradoxically a hush-hush-whisper thing and a scream-it-online-and -in-the-cafeteria thing? If everyone was really having sex, why weren't more girls sporting baby bumps? I know the statistics.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

I wouldn't mention that to him, if I were you.> < Ah, but if you /were/ me, perhaps you would.> --Pirate King, chapter 9

Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.

My crime seemed destined to remain a secret forever.

My friends must all have known all along. Yet nobody breathed a word. But of course, the truth is that nobody ever does breathe a word, nobody interferes, nobody whispers while the acrobat is on the tight-rope; they just sit and watch the spectacle, waiting only to be wise after the event.

I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

She's hiding and no one else sees. She's dying and no one else notices.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Skull and Bones" A secret society of spoiled twits whose apparent purpose in life is littering the landscape with as many as possible.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

Humor, motivations, moral, gods, energy, secrecy

Pittacus Lore, Eight's Origin

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.