Quotes about Secrecy
It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him. I
— Henry David Thoreau
do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.
— Henry David Thoreau
An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.
— Herman Melville
Your true heart is best revealed in secret. In other words, the secret you is the real you.
— Stephen Kendrick
Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.
— Marcus Aurelius
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.
— Margaret Atwood
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
— Margaret Atwood
The Aunts had their methods, and their informants: no walls were solid for them, no doors locked.
— Margaret Atwood
Disguise is easier when you're young.
— Margaret Atwood
Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? Or why I always behave differently when I'm in the company of others? Why do people have such little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.
— Anne Frank
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
— Aldous Huxley