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To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
-Anon.
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What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
-Chinese Proverb
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
-Proverb
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
-Proverb
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Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
-Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
(attributed)
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Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
-W. H. Auden
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Secrets travel fast in Paris.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
-Andre Breton
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Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
-George Washington Carver
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Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
-Sir John Chadwick
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
with Michael Kube-McDowell
-Arthur C. Clarke
The Trigger
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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
-William Congreve
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
-Joseph Conrad
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
-Don Delillo
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His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.
-Emily Dickinson
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.
-Euripides
Ion
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-Benjamin Franklin
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If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
-Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac
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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
-Sigmund Freud
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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
-Robert Frost
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Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.
-Robert Fulghum
Maybe, Maybe Not
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Books about Secrets
