Quotes About Secrecy

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

When you start hiding things away, that's when the darkness creeps up. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I always feel: when one person is indebted to another for something very special, that indebtedness should remain a secret between just the two of them.

E tutto congiura a tacere di noi, in parte come vergogna, o forse come speranza indicibile.

I can see myself lying in my little high-sided bed, not sleeping and somehow vaguely intimating that that was how life would be: full of special things that are only intended for one person and cannot be told of.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding

Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

Will became a bush under a bush, a shadow among shadows, with two starlight rounds of glass, his eyes, holding the image of Jim calling up in a whisper toward the second floor windows (Bradbury 90). This quote shows that Will hid behind the bush so well that no one can see him, that he became a shadow among shadows. The phrase shadow among shadows is to show that no one can see him, he is a shadow in a shadow

We got caught reading nights with flashlights under our sheets, right? So, nobody'll suspect an old jar of fireflies; folks'll think it's just a night museum.

Sometimes I drive all night and come back and you don't know it. It's fun out in the country. You hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs.

Montag sentiu que o livro eu escondera batia como um outro coração contra o seu peito.

Walking to the taffrail, I was in time to make out, on the very edge of a darkness thrown by a towering black mass like the very gateway of Erebus—yes, I was in time to catch an evanescent glimpse of my white hat left behind to mark the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and of my thoughts, as though he were my second self, had lowered himself into the water to take his punishment: a free man, a proud swimmer striking out for a new destiny

The only secret of her life was her abject terror of the time when her husband would come home to stay for good.

There is no occupation that fails a man more completely than that of a secret agent of police. It's like your horse suddenly falling dead under you in the midst of an uninhabited and thirsty plain.

He sealed the utterance with that smile of his, as though it had been a door opening into a darkness he had in his keeping.

The epigrammatic saying that speech has been given to us for the purpose of concealing our thoughts came into his mind.

The truth travels over the earth secretly; it seeks a nest among the people. To the authorities it's like a knife in the fire. They cannot accept it. It will cut them and burn them. Truth is your good friend and a sworn enemy of the authorities — that's why it hides itself.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. —JOSEPH CONRAD

Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Colonel

Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

he had been given a sign, a secret, enigmatic vision that he still lacked the boldness to divulge. There was no mistaking the awesome implications of the chaplain's revelation: it was either an insight of divine origin or a hallucination; he was either blessed or losing his mind.

adamant that Carl never let on that he felt his cover was

I am infatuated with the private life, and with anonymity; perhaps even invisibility.

a mother's crying, stifled, soundless, secret so as not to disturb. If you cried so others could hear you were crying to be heard but a mother's crying was just the opposite, crying not to be heard.