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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
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
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
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
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
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
— Georg Simmel
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
when companies are not transparent, communities fear that such secrecy covers insincerity, dishonesty, and trickiness. Transparency
— Luc Zandvliet
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 beginning of tyranny
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
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
They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.
— Anthony Horowitz
