Secrecy Quotes

254 Secrecy quotes by 207 unique authors

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends. — Jonathan Swift
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. — Jonathan Swift
The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence. — Thomas Browne
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. — Jean de la Bruyere
As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that… — Honore de Balzac
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. — Honore de Balzac
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to… — Honore de Balzac
The secret known to two is no longer a secret. — Ninon de L'Enclos
To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. — Benjamin Franklin
Two may keep counsel putting one away! — William Shakespeare
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart. — Victor Hugo
Keep your misfortunes to yourself. — William Hazlitt
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

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