Secrecy Quotes

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

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.

Conceal thy domestic ills.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

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

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

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

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.

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

The secret known to two is no longer a secret.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

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

Secrecy is for losers.

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

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

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

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

Be thine own privy counsellor.

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

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

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

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.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

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

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

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

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