Secrecy Quotes
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Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy.
— David Foster Wallace
I am afraid to think of what I might have done, on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.
— Charles Dickens
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
— William O. Douglas
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
— R.D. Laing
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
— Abraham Lincoln
Darkness always tries to hide the truth!
— Seth Adam Smith
Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.
— Catherine Marshall
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
— Elia Kazan
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
— Adam Weishaupt
Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
— William, Saroyan
Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.
— E. M. Forster
The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.
— Hosni Mubarak
Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.
— Julian Assange
All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.
— Michael Clarke
And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell ... You know you love me.XOXO,
Gossip Girl — Cecily Von Ziegesar
With an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.
— William Golding
Warren life doesn't make for secrecy.
— Richard Adams
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
— William Hazlitt
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
— Georg Simmel
The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
— Julian Assange
Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.
— Francis Bacon
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.
— Christopher Dodd
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
— M. Night Shyamalan
There's a kind of secrecy in the world at this time of night, as if I'm allowed to see mysteries hidden in daylight.
— Nalini Singh
No secrecy, no business.
— Toba Beta
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
— DeWitt Clinton
Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.
— Ramsey Clark
This kind of thing requires secrecy to function, so exposing all the secrets hurts them in the end. It's the only way this really, permanently stops.
— James S.A. Corey
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
— Saadi
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
— Harry Houdini
Secrecy is for losers.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
And no other attempt made at secrecy than Mrs. Norris's talking of it everywhere as a matter not to be talked of at present.
— Jane Austen
... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ...
— Frederick Marryat
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
— Jeremy Bentham
We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.
— Frithjof Schuon
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
— Edward Teller
Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.
— Joseph Pulitzer
That queen of secrecy, the violet.
— John Keats
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
— Harrison Salisbury
Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy
— Albert Einstein
The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)
— Ronald Reagan
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.
— Edward Teller
They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.
— Anthony Horowitz
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
— Philip Sidney
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
— Jeremy Taylor
Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future.
— Sean Best
There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink.
— Clay Griffith
Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.
— Seth Adam Smith
What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?
— Christopher Hitchens
It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
— Criss Jami
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
— D.H. Lawrence
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
— Noam Chomsky
when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency
— Luc Zandvliet
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny
— Robert A. Heinlein
An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.
— Loren D. Estleman
Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.
— Wangari Maathai
Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.
— William Shakespeare
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
— Francis Bacon
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.
— Robert J. Sawyer
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.
— Heather Brooke
We don't need secrecy.
— Jimmy Wales
