Secrecy Quotes

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

The secret known to two is no longer a secret.

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

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

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

That queen of secrecy, the violet.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.

There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.