Ron Atkinson Quotes

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

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

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

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.

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

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.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

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

She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." Frizz's eyebrows rose. "So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" "We need another plan," Hiro said.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

A man is hid under his tongue.

Hiding is for amateurs.

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

You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.

Somebody is always hiding something.

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.