quotations about secrets
Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
SIR JOHN CHADWICK
London Independent, July 26, 1990
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
PAUL TOURNIER
attributed, 1000 Pocket Positives: Inspiring Quotations
A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH CRAIK
Magnus and Morna
Sharing a secret is a sure-fire aphrodisiac.
JIM SHELLEY
"R.I.P. Roxy and Ronnie", Daily Mail, January 20, 2017
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Fables
The only secret that has ever been kept is -- well, that is a secret.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
Secrets ... are the very root of cool.
WILLIAM GIBSON
Spook Country
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
SENECA
Oedipus
Secret heart
Why so mysterious?
Why so sacred, why so serious?
Maybe you're just acting tough
Maybe you're just not man enough
What's wrong?
Let her in on your secret, heart
RON SEXSMITH
"Secret Heart"
To know how to keep a secret is the greatest of all secrets.
TUPAC AMARU
attributed, Day's Collacon
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.
BIBLE
Deuteronomy 29:29
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Selected Poems
Everyone in town important enough to have secrets worth keeping knows that secrets are not safe.
FRED BARBASH
"Trump lawyers spill beans, thanks to terrible choice of restaurant -- next door to the New York Times", Washington Post, September 18, 2017
Our secrets are what keep us sick and as soon as we are able to expose them to another person, that is when the healing begins.
PHILLIP L. SMITH
"For a band of 'brothers,' family and community are at the core of recovery", Watertown Daily Times, September 17, 2017
Secrets are insidious and can be a dangerous slippery slope that starts with a small detail you leave out when talking about your day, to a white lie about how much you really spent at the store. Over time, it becomes a habit, and like any habit, the lie grows bigger and wider until you feel like your life is out of control!
MARGOT BROWN
"Money, Sex, & Secrets: Keep Them from Ending Your Relationship", PsychCentral, August 26, 2017
Keep your secrets; if you have rice hide it under your unhusked corn.
KADIR MUNSHI
attributed, Day's Collacon
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères
Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.
JEAN FERRIS
Once Upon a Marigold
If we can find the best ways to face the secrets we keep from ourselves, I think the act of sharing them can be transformative. It can change who we are.
FRANK WARREN
"Frank Warren aims to share interesting secrets, celebrate people's stories at PostSecret Live event", Central Michigan Life, September 11, 2017
If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still.
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet