William Hazlitt Quotes

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

In those days secrets were well kept.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

I definitely keep myself secret.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

Things keep their secrets.

Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business.

The less people know about me, the easier my job is.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.