Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old secrecy quotes, secrecy sayings, and secrecy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.Franny Billingsley
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If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.Seneca
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Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.Ric Ocasek
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.Max Brooks
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In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.Isak Dinesen
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Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.Delphine de Vigan
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Secrets tend to get revealed when you're feeling most loved and when you're feeling most betrayed.Anonymous
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Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.Christopher Dodd
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Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.Charles Caleb Colton
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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.Mary Alice Monroe
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.Elbert Hubbard
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.Thomas Carlyle
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Our secrets are the walls that separate us and the bridges that connect us with others and who we truly are.Frank Warren
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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.Georg Simmel
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Privacy seems not an illusion for those who want to believe in secrecy principle.Toba Beta
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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.William Hazlitt
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Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.Nicolas Chamfort
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.Jeremy Bentham
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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
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Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.Cicero
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A secret is most valuable when it remains a secret.Brian Herbert
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Secrets are pleasant to each child of Eve.Hannah Cowley
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.Edgar Watson Howe
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.Jeremy Taylor
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A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.Swift
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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.Georg Simmel
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Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.Jean Ferris
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.Samuel Johnson