Top 52 Secret Secrecy Quotes
#1. Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
Donna Tartt
#2. The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them.
William Howard Taft
#3. Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
Daniel Schorr
#4. We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
Jean De La Bruyere
#5. All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves.
Nenia Campbell
#6. If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
David Nicholls
#7. A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.
Michael R. French
#8. What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?
Christopher Hitchens
#9. For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
Adam Weishaupt
#10. the U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at all - and keeping information classified until long after any justification for classifying it has disappeared.
Rosa Brooks
#11. Government ought to be all outside and no inside ... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
Woodrow Wilson
#12. All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.
Clive Ponting
#13. To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.
Johannes Trithemius
#16. A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
#17. Defenseless peasant societies in Laos and Cambodia were savagely bombed in "secret" - the "secrecy" resulting from the refusal of the mass media to make public facts for which they had ample evidence.
Noam Chomsky
#18. Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
Sophocles
#19. One day I'm a normal person with a normal life," he said. "The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get arrested. It was completely crazy. But it seemed like the only way at the time.
Tyler Hamilton
#20. Lest others should attempt the ascent of this terrible climb and perish, they swore themselves to secrecy (telling only enough people to ensure the perpetuation of their epic) and went off to try Everest instead.
Whipplesnaith
#22. To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.
Samuel Johnson
#23. The Air Force had put out a secret order for its pilots to capture UFOs. For the last six months we have been working with a congressional committee for investigating official secrecy concerning proof that UFOs are real machines under intelligent.
Donald Keyhoe
#25. Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.
Guy Debord
#26. Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
Jill Lepore
#27. There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
Heather Brooke
#28. At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.
Fritz Sauckel
#29. In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.
Robert K. Massie
#30. It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
Saadi
#31. They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo - their kind. To limbo.
Philip Wylie
#32. Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.
Julian Assange
#34. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
Patrick Rothfuss
#35. The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
Julian Assange
#36. Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.
E. M. Forster
#38. People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.
Craig Venter
#39. What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
Philip Sidney
#40. And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell ... You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#41. When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
Harry S. Truman
#42. She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
Oscar Wilde
#43. There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
Victor Hugo
#45. The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is kind of a fake issue because hardly anything technological remains a secret for very long.
Howard Zinn
#48. The beauty with modest smile, whose secrecy of silent love had just been stolen, beamed at this wonderful offer and she replenished herself with his love as a carefree child cossetted with luxurious warmth after a cold shower.
Ashmita Acharya
#49. He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
John Dryden
#50. 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
#51. When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.
Joyce Rachelle
#52. It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
Abraham Lincoln
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