quotations about secrets
He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Titon
Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.
MICHELLE HODKIN
The Evolution of Mara Dyer
As the spider is not seen in his web, so are the secrets of a man concealed in his heart.
WAUKATAUKI
attributed, Day's Collacon
For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.
BIBLE
Luke 8:17
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.
LORD ACTON
letter to Richard Simpson, January 23, 1861
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU
"Maxims", Testament Politique
Secrecy, like oil on the body of a wrestler, makes an opponent slippery.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
Unnatural Combat
Never inquire into another man's secret; but conceal that which is entrusted to you, though pressed both by wine and anger to reveal it.
HORACE
Epistles
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Blind Assassin
Whether it was one of your own or a friends, they can last a few years or mere hours. But one thing is for sure ... secrets are hard to keep, and more often than not, they don't stay hidden.
OLIVIA HAYES
"Keeping secrets has a very negative (and strange) effect on your body", Her, September 18, 2017
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets, as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
In the deeper recesses of every heart is a store of hoarded secrets.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.
EDWIN H. LAND
address to Polaroid Corporation employees at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, February 5, 1960
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
DON DELILLO
Underworld
There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Back to Methuselah
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
JAMES HOWELL
letter to Mr. R. Howard, Epistolae Ho-Elianae: The Familiar Letters of James Howell, February 14, 1647
Tell me what you want to hear
Something that will light those ears
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time, don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away
ONE REPUBLIC
"Secrets"
You may know my personality, but my dreams, fears, fantasies, and secrets are only in my music.
CAMILA CABELLO
"Camila Cabello Admits She Was Terrified To Perform Without Fifth Harmony", International Business Times, September 22, 2017
Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
SIR JOHN CHADWICK
London Independent, July 26, 1990