Quotes about Secrecy

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If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself. — Seneca
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. — Chinese saying
Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love. — Antiphanes
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret. — French proverb
It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time. — Oliver Franks
I know that's a secret for it's whispered everywhere. — William Congreve
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own. — Goethe
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of — Henry Taylor
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen
Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult. — William Butler Yeats
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. — Alexander Smith
Where secrecy reigns carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light. — Daniel C. Gelman
Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets s — Bible
Even in your thought do not curse the king nor in your bedchamber curse the rich for a bird of the air will carry you — Bible
It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government do — Glenn Greenwald
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however — Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy. — Robert K. Massie, The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. — Jeremy Taylor