Secretive Quotes

“People are secretive when they have secrets.”

“People are secretive when they have secrets.”

“The deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it.”

“Well, they've come a long way. To think that he now could access a secret document held in the Vatican archives, via electronic technology.”

“Our people believe in God, don’t they? And they also do secretive acts, don’t they? How can you keep a secret from God [the absolute supreme self within us] that knows all your actions? If you want to realize God, then you cannot do secret acts.”

“There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.”

“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”

“The most secretive news that can make you to shake hands with great people is humility. Pride on the other way is a dream killer.”

“I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves, a mixture of worry, lost power, perhaps even concern. That the truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other.”

“He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.”

“He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.”