Quotes about Secrecy
There is no pornography without a secrecy.
— DH Lawrence
Yet he was tense, feeling that he and the elderly, estranged woman were conferring together like traitors, like enemies within the camp of the other people.
— DH Lawrence
He could only say the one thing he was afraid to say: Will you hide in my house, master?
— DH Lawrence
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
— Wendell Berry
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.
— Marcel Pagnol
If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
— Oscar Wilde
When we can't tell anyone else—we can always tell God.
— Dale Carnegie
The Disciplines of Christ-likeness The third side of our triangle is made up of spiritual disciplines. These are special activities, many engaged in by Jesus himself, such as solitude and study, service and secrecy, fasting and worship.
— Dallas Willard
The discipline of secrecy will help us break the grip of human opinion over our souls and our actions. A discipline is an activity in our power that we do to enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.
— Dallas Willard
He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.
— William Faulkner
The secret of praying is praying in secret.
— Leonard Ravenhill
anything you do in the dark. In other words, it's any act that you try to hide from others. So, what kind of person are you when the shades are drawn? That's really the question. "Integrity," as Dr. Werjonic used to say, "has no private life." But, of course, no one has complete integrity because everyone has things to hide. All of us act differently when no one is watching.
— Steven James