Top 137 Secretive Quotes & Sayings

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

The '50s were a secretive time.

Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Lead the least secretive life you can.

As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion.

I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.

Wizards are a secretive lot.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

My favorite whisky bar in the world is in my adopted Bangkok. A refined and secretive Japanese speakeasy among the girly bars of Soi 33, it's called Hailiang.

We're [with Ilana Glazer] both totally upfront and proud feminists. We're not being all secretive about it. I feel like we're pretty blatant in our approach.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

Well, I think it's important to keep things secretive because what's happened so much is the press competes with each other to put as much information out there as they can and sometimes it can be very damaging to the films to have the stories leaked or certain plot details. I think it's important to have something remain secretive for the audience and something special for the audience so there aren't spoilers all over the internet.

I'm a very secretive person.

I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.

You know, Mad Men is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.

People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

I am not secretive, but I don't feel the need to say things out loud.

Apple is so secretive internally, they keep secrets from each other.

We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.

You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business.

It’s a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that’s almost animalistic

The pleasure in lovers' gifts is that they are often covert and secretive, worn next to the skin, hidden under pillows.

Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.

I'm very secretive about my feelings, very shy.

We got really close, but it was just too complicated and secretive to shoot at the Met Ball. That would have been the brass ring of 'Gossip Girl' episodes.

I got this secretive, very secretive email from my agent saying, 'You have an audition for Marvel, no one's letting us know what the name of the film is, but are you available on this day? That's all we know.' And I went, 'OK, well, I think it will probably be 'Thor,' because Taika's got it.'

I'm kinda secretive, and I can't even say secretive because of my son. He's the type, like, he doesn't let his friends know who his mom is or his stepdad. He doesn't like me going to his school. If he gets into trouble at school, he's, like, dying. He's very low-key with it. He's always been like that since he was born.

I'm not a secretive guy. I'm talkative.

I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

I am expressive but secretive about my emotions.

I was a pretty sheltered kid, a slow starter. I was pretty secretive with my passion for music and, I guess, my talent and what-not.

I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive world.

Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies.

Marvel's very secretive, and I'm not hiding anything, I'm not lying; it's just the way they are.

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

The diamond business has always been secretive.

Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.

When you go to Marvel, they lock you in a room with the scripts; they really are that secretive.

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.