Secrecy Quotes

254 quotes by 207 authors

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake. — William Hazlitt
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are… — Jean de La Fontaine
Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,… — Samuel Johnson
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never… — Samuel Johnson
Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men. — Samuel Johnson
We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still,… — Leigh Hunt
Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master. — John Dryden
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three. — James Howell
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to… — Francis Quarles
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. — Lucretius
A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust,… — Russell B. Long
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. — George Crabbe
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William Saroyan
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain. — Philip Massinger
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine! — Philip Sidney
What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it. — Pittacus of Mytilene
There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not… — Robert Byrd
The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. When I caught up with Batman Begins ... All… — Christopher Nolan

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