Able Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.

— Heather Brooke

Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.

— John Fire Lame Deer

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

— Paul Valery

“Secrecy is an idea which presumes men can't read minds to each other.”

— Toba Beta

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

— Francis Bacon

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

— Isak Dinesen

“Men need to whisper secrets, Lady. That’s what makes them different from us – they need to share secrets, but we women only reveal…

— James Clavell

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

— Marcel Proust

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

— Thomas Carlyle

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

— Abraham Verghese

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

— Georg Simmel

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their…

— Norm MacDonald