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Quotes About Guarded

Gerard had built a most excellent fortress around himself, a fortress bristling with sharp barbs, its walls stocked with buckets of acidic comments, its high towers hidden in a cloud of dark humors, the entire fortress surrounded by a moat of sullen resentment.
~ Margaret Weis
But you felt safe." "What sort of safe?" "Safe for me. Safe from harm. Every kind of safe.
~ Marian Keyes
But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.
~ Mario Puzo
Frances is a sealed letter. It doesn't matter where she's been or who's pawed her, no one gets to handle the contents no matter how grimy the envelope. And it's for sure no one's going to be able to steam her open.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find
~ Sophie Jordan
Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Careful, she bites.
~ Ellen Potter
Don't put your heart out on your sleeve, When your remarks are off the cuff - Riot Act from Get Happy
~ Elvis Costello
Further, we acknowledge that, to the credit of our age, we meet, ever since the revival of morality and religion and during our own times, some women, here and there, so moral, so religious, so devoted to their duties, so upright, so precise, so stiff, so virtuous, so--that the devil himself dare not even look at them; they are guarded on all sides by rosaries, hours of prayer and directors. Pshaw!
~ balzac honore de xxi
I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.
~ Shania Twain
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
~ T. E. Lawrence
My brother, Mildmay, my fox, who'd guided and guarded me all the way across Kekropia.
~ Sarah Monette
We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.
~ Sarah Waters
Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads. -You're just making that up, Jean.
~ Scott Lynch
era una buena chica. Mantenía la boca cerrada allí donde iba. Llevaba el secreto enterrado muy adentro.
~ Markus Zusak
No; he is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The love received is the love that is saved.
~ Eddie Vedder
preternaturally private
~ Jonathan Allen
A lie is an excuse guarded.
~ Jonathan Swift
By a declaration, liberty is born. With courage she is nourished, and with unceasing commitment she is guarded.
~ Eric Schaub
Honestly, I wanted to play it safe with my first film; I didn't want to do something completely out of the box.
~ Akhil Akkineni
and won out of her a stiff unused smile.
~ Graham Greene
I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'
~ Michael Bay
I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.
~ Kelly Clarkson