Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

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

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

If my friends don’t know what my plans are, then my enemies will not.

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

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

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.

Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

Hiding is for amateurs.

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

You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.

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 all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

My anonymity is something I treasure.

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.

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.

I don't want people to know who I am.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

I don't tell many people my last name.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

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