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Quotes about Secrecy

you know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all. -Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I don't talk about my personal life in the press that's how I kept my wedding a secret.
- Kerry Washington
I am the only being whose doom No tongue would ask no eye would mourn I never caused a thought of gloom A smile of joy since I was born In secret pleasure -- secret tears This changeful life has slipped away As friendless after eighteen years As lone as on my natal day.
- Emily Bronte
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
- John Perkins
Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....
- Donald Trump
Certainly. Of course. That's part of it. And always coming to school or when we're going home, you're to walk with me, when there ain't anybody looking — and you choose me and I choose you at parties, because that's the way you do when you're engaged.
- Mark Twain
Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.
- Stephen Hawking
If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.
- Stephen Hawking
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.
- Robert Brault
one sin demands another to cover it.
- LM Montgomery