“An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.” — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret. — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your little dark room, you dream… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation.… — Russell B. Long Copy Share Image
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
“Freedom from the cloak of secrecy is integral to a teaching that gives primacy to direct experience, inviting each individual to test… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage … One of the most remarkable features of this damage… — Arjun Makhijani Copy Share Image
Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff.… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“My father was quite conscious of that distinction, too, and because he spoke very freely in private, he used to sometimes say,… — Mary Soames Copy Share Image
I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three. — James Howell Copy Share Image
The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
![“Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time…” quote by Jake Gyllenhaal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac4/jake-gyllenhaal-2014_age_ang-lee-gave-us-a-lot-of-books-about-cow_876477.jpg)
![“I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear…” quote by Owen Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c1/owen-wilson-10973_bits_i-guess-i-was-a-little-bit-nervous-becau_1998914.png)
