Secrecy Quotes - Page 2

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

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.

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

in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

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

Be thine own privy counsellor.

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

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

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

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

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

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.