Sarah Lacy Quotes

I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

What ever you do-Don't get caught.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

I want to keep people guessing.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.

Hide your strength, bide your time.

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.