Secrecy Quotes

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Some information I just keep to myself.

That which I would discoverThe law of friendship bids me to conceal.

I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea, there'll be no "charge" left. You can't father children that way.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

We don't even know who's in the Academy.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.

They love least that let men know their loves.

We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

I saw a seagull hanging out by a lake, but I said, "Don't worry, Dude. I won't say anything."

The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

Every time I walk by a spy shop, I think that I need to put some surveillance on somebody. Rick's been acting fishy! I need to buy a safe that looks like a Spray 'N Wash can. "Hey, Mitch, can I use the Spray 'N Wash?" "Yeah, if you want to spray your shirt with documents!"

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast?Who knew I'd have to look at you through a glass?And look, tell me you ain't did it, you ain't did itAnd if you did, then that's family business.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.