1,170 Quotes About Secrets

I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.

And perhaps her escape was not from anything she had done, but from what she had seen. It was a speculation. I would never find out, for she possessed her secrets fully, as did those women that Vermeer painted in this same gray, lowland light; like theirs, her silence seemed absolute.

And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?

It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you're avoiding confronting it directly is that it's something you don't want to know.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

It was folly to think that she was the only one that had ever had any secrets.

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.