covert behavior Quotes

Also, in my bedroom, nobody minded if I kept the hall door half-open, allowing in enough light that I was not scared of the dark, and, just as important, allowing me to read secretly, after my bedtime, using the dim hallway light to read by, if I needed to. I always needed to.

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

You know your girls up to no good when her and her friends make a pact to post nothing on Instagram.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.

It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I'd write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

This is passive-aggression in action.

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to.

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Men like that - when they know they won't be found out - they will do anything.

Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner.

Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

Men are much more up-front with their friends. There isn't as much maneuvering, back-stabbing and covert campaigning. It is what it is at face value.