143 Quotes About Secrecy

The sanction made the unsaid even more palpable, as if the thoughts had been waiting outside the room, and had at last been given permission to enter; now there was no denying their presence.

Each elegant life has got its hidden dark background. More perfectness, more secrecy.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.

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.

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

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

The time for its secrecy is past. It's time for it to come into the light.

Be thine own privy counsellor.