Quotes About Secrecy

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members.

A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.

A secret society within a secret society.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

Spiritual matters should be private.

mysterious like the moon, she would delight you in her glow, her light alone can make you question yourself.. & who was she? She will never let you know.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy

She was like a permanent invasion of one's privacy.

surreptitious

Curious that one should be dumb before intimates and open one's mind to an all but stranger.

Private. Not to be opened, was written in capital letters on the cover. He raised his eyebrows. It was the sort of thing one wrote in one's Latin Grammar while one was still at one's preparatory school. Black is the raven, black is the rook, But blacker the thief who steals this book! It was curiously childish, he thought, and he smiled to himself. He opened the book. What he saw made him wince as though he had been struck.

Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known.

Look, Fernand, your eyes are better than mine. I believe I see double. You know wine is a deceiver; but I should say it was two lovers walking side by side, and hand in hand. Heaven forgive me, they do not know that we can see them, and they are actually embracing!

Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it

There were two classes of persons upon whom a duty of virtually absolute confidentiality rested: doctors and lovers.

People with something to hide wore sunglasses indoors. They were the ones you had to watch very carefully.