Quotes about Secrecy

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets... I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing," he said. "Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...

You better not never tell nobody but god.

Who's that behind those Foster Grants?

El oro y amores eran malos de encubrir [Gold and love affairs are difficult to hide].

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen.

I have done one braver thingThan all the Worthies did;And yet a braver thence doth spring,Which is, to keep that hid.