Jonathan Swift Quotes

Somebody is always hiding something.

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.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve.

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Secrecy is as essential to Intelligence as vestments to a Mass, or darkness to a spiritualist seance, and must at all costs be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

He was among men who cloaked their lives with religion in order to follow their real purposes unseen of men.

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

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.

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

People are secretive when they have secrets.