143 Quotes About Secrecy

As long as they don't know, I am safe

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.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.


Truth never damages a cause that is just.

The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.