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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
Silence keeps a secret. I understand.' I
It is amazing what you can hide when no one knows what to look for.
It's easy to keep secrets when nobody gives a damn.
The most precious things are always invisible; they are always kept hidden.
What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
A secret's safest hiding place is in the open.
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.
No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become.
Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.
Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you'll see that they're revealing everything.
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found.
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating when done on the sly.
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it ...
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
The act of concealment had become more powerful than what it concealed.
A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
I don't want to hide anything - there is nothing to hide.
God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.
...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.
They kept their secret from the knowledge of others, not as a shameful guilt, but as a thing that was immaculately theirs, beyond anyone's right of debate or appraisal.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
We must hide our integrity, like we hide our love.
If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
When what they do is hidden, men sometimes deal with strangers in ways they wouldn't if there were other eyes to see.
To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.
Some things better left unspoken
One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.
Everybody has something to conceal.
Secrecy is for the happy,
misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.
Battle against obscurity
It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known.
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or an be hidden.
It's more fun to keep stuff secret.
He that has a secret to hide should not only hide it but hide that he has to hide it.
There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.
What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.
Concealment is the foe of tranquility.
Secrecy is for losers.
Hiding is existing in a constant state of alarm, remaining undiscovered, and inferior.
There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets
Some things were secret even after you told them.
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.Hide-- Paulo Coelho
Things keep their secrets.
So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.
It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.
An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.
Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
There's Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty ...
Sneakiness was a form of privacy and privacy here was the first loss.
Be obscure clearly.
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence.
I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
Secrets turn powerless in the open air.
Only by concealing our identities can we shed the masks we have to wear at school, at work, even at home - everywhere there is surveillance, policing, punishment - masks that are increasingly indistinguishable from ourselves.
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
He who sees what is done in secret, rewards in the light
A secret is only a secret as long as only one person knows it
It's amazing what we keep hidden from others.
It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I
Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.
Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.
Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.
The power of the visible is the invisible.
Most people, however clever, however controlled, never hid it completely. There were chinks, clues, habits. At some point, the real person showed through the facade.
All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.
People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.
Reveal art; conceal the artist.
Nothing is as invisible as the obvious.
Everyone has a secret. Some people will do anything to protect it.
I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.
It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body ...
The greatest loves are those kept in secret.
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.
There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest; but there is seldom one in which a man should tell all. Great skill is necessary to know how far to go, and where to stop.
Secrets come to light no matter how hard we try to bury them.
Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.