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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place — David Nicholls

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

Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern. — Ted Gup

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

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. — Jane Pauley

The painter saw what was, an alternate
Candor and secrecy inside the skin. — Thom Gunn

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

My hopes and dreams, so tattered and tender, had been sheltered by secrecy for so long that I could not bear to bring them to light. — S. Jae-Jones

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism. — Catherine Marshall

There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart. — Victor Hugo

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. — Elia Kazan

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared. — Sissela Bok

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

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it. — Diane Samuels

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

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. — Charles Fort

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. — Criss Jami

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

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. — Georg Simmel

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. — Georg Simmel

What thou seest, speak of with caution. — Solon

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

If you think love means secrecy, then you don't understand what love is at all. — Anne Blankman

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. — M. Night Shyamalan

No secrecy, no business. — Toba Beta

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

People lead their real, most interesting lives under cover of secrecy — William Boyd

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

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy. — Alan Furst

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

Excessive administration secrecy ... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government. — John McCain

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy. — Anton Chekhov

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy. — Laura Schlessinger

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake. — William Hazlitt

In nature's infinite book of secrecy,
A little I can read
1.2. 30-31. — William Shakespeare

We all know Damian's big on secrecy. The man makes the CIA look like a gabfest. He is Mr Need-To-Know.
As in, students never need to know. — Tera Lynn Childs

As long as they don't know, I am safe — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy. — Donald Rumsfeld

Where's the line, Sarah? What separates an informal effort from a rogue operation?" "Success," she countered. "And secrecy. — Matthew Palmer

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy. — Ramsey Clark

We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate. — Helen Thomas

Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel. — Heather Brooke

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements. — Katherine Neville

Secrecy is an idea which presumes
men can't read minds to each other. — Toba Beta

Secrecy is for losers. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it. — Saadi

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. — Edward Teller

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

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. — Max Brooks

when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency — Luc Zandvliet

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. — Oscar Wilde

Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future. — Sean Best

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy. — Harrison Salisbury

There are springs in the mind from which others cannot drink. — Clay Griffith

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

We don't need secrecy. — Jimmy Wales

Mysteries are due to secrecy. — Francis Bacon

An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch. — Loren D. Estleman

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. — DeWitt Clinton

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

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

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. — Charles Caleb Colton

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it. — Ric Ocasek

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny — Robert A. Heinlein

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. — Michel Faber

the problem with so secure a place was that it depended absolutely on secrecy which, once blown, became a fatal liability — Tom Clancy

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

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. — Noam Chomsky

Nobody in the government is talking. They say it's a case of national security. — Kenneth Eade

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

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. — Ian McEwan

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy. — Donna Tartt

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. — Jeremy Taylor

Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy — Albert Einstein

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It thrives on secrecy, silence, and judgment. If we can share our experience of shame with someone who responds with empathy, shame can't survive. We — Brene Brown

Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity. — Criss Jami

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