SECRETS QUOTES V

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


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


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

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Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

MICHELLE HODKIN

The Evolution of Mara Dyer


The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Blind Assassin

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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

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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


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

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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


There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Back to Methuselah

Tags: George Bernard Shaw


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


In the deeper recesses of every heart is a store of hoarded secrets.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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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

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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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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

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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


He that publisheth his friend's secrets, doth publish his own shame.

THOMAS WATSON

attributed, Holy Thoughts on Holy Things