SECRECY

Related Subjects: Concealment, Mystery, Obscurity

1. Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.—Bible, Luke 8:17
   

2. A sekret ceases tew be a sekret if it iz once confided—it iz like a dollar bill, once broken, it iz never a dollar agin.—JOSH BILLINGS, Affurisms
   

3. When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Vulgar Errors
   

4. A secret's. safe
   'Twixt you, me, and the gate-post!—BROWNING, The Inn Album
   

5. These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.—SUSAN COOLIDGE, Secrets
   

6. Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.—DICKENS, A Christmas Carol
   

7. At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that it suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.—HAWTHORNE, The Marble Faun
   

8. Never suffer a thought to be harbored in your mind which you would not avow openly. When tempted to do anything in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public. If you would not, be sure it is wrong.—JEFFERSON
   

9. Who shall doubt "the secret hid
   Under Cheops' pyramid"
   Was that the contractor did
   Cheops out of several millions?—KIPLING, A General Summary
   

10. Try your friend with a falsehood, and if he keep it a secret tell him the truth.—Proverb
    

11. Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills.—Proverb
    

12. To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.—Proverb
    

13. Thy secret is thy prisoner; if thou let it go, thou art a prisoner to
    it.—Proverb
    

14. It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal it.—Proverb
    

15. Give it an understanding, but no tongue.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

16. Give thy thoughts no tongue.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

17. I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

18. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.—BERNARD SHAW, Mrs. Warren's Profession
    

19. If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Dreamthorp
    

20. Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters to His Son
    

21. Man is God's secret,
    Power is man's secret,
    Sex is woman's secret.—JAMES STEPHENS, The Crock of Gold
    

22. The man who has no secrets from his wife either has no secrets or no wife.—GILBERT WELLS