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

I don't talk about my personal life in the press that's how I kept my wedding a secret.

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.

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.

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....

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.

Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

one sin demands another to cover it.