Secrecy Quotes

254 Secrecy quotes by 207 unique authors

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious… — Anton Chekhov
Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the… — Luigi Pirandello
It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely… — Hilaire Belloc
Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change… — Reince Priebus
The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the… — Chris Terrio
From the very beginning of this movement, Scientology has always been a very closeted organization. That aura of secrecy is something that the present-day management… — Lawrence Wright
I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing the… — Mitt Romney
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to… — Christopher Dodd
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it. — George P. Shultz
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. — Kate Adie
It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind… — Glenn Greenwald
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was… — Janet Yellen
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy… — Marc Rich
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee,… — Ben Macintyre
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. — Seneca the Younger
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. — Seneca the Younger
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly. — Friedrich Schiller
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. — Charles Caleb Colton
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and… — Charles Caleb Colton
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be thine own privy counsellor. — Benjamin Disraeli
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. — Horace

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