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  • The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

    Thinking   Long   Secret  
    Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.87
  • Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."

    Rain   Thinking   Wind  
  • Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

    Betrayal   Men   Secret  
    Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.131
  • That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.135
  • Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

    "The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies". American Journal of Sociology, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 462, January, 1906.
  • The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.

    Christian   Eye   History  
    Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.881, e-artnow
  • The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.

    Issues   Secret   Add  
    To Colonel Elias Dayton, 26 July 1777; cited in Helgerson, CIA Briefings (1996). When President Kennedy visited CIA in January 1961 he saw this letter on display and asked for a copy of it. He later wrote to DCI Allen Dulles, "The letter is both a fine memento of my visit with you and a continuing reminder of the role of intelligence in national policy."
  • What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

    Speak   Secrecy  
  • In our system, grand juries take every charge, every lie, and they try to sort the truth from the lies, and then they move forward into the system. And that's how the system ought to work. We should respect the secrecy of the grand jury so they can sort through what's true and what's not. And someone is leaking, and if they are leaking from the grand jury investigation, then that's a violation of the law.

    Lying   Moving   Law  
  • 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.

    Doors   Luxury   Comfort  
  • The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, proportion, colour and utility, and, furthermore, be capable of arousing feelings of grandeur, gaiety, sadness, wildness, domesticity, surprise and secrecy.

    Sadness   Garden   Views  
  • This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

    Fear   Persistence   Evil  
    Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]
  • To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

    Men   People   Profound  
    Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee
  • Secrecy is for losers.

    Loser   Secrecy  
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1999). “Secrecy: The American Experience”, p.1, Yale University Press
  • When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

    Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.114
  • In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

    Secret   Secrecy   Liable  
  • Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

    Prayer   Cost   May  
  • When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.

    Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.402, Best Books on
  • To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

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

    Secret   Secrecy  
    "Characters", IV, 1688.
  • How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

    Solitude   Mind   Secrecy  
  • A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

    Home   Rocks   Secret  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 695-96, Magnus and Morna, scene 2, 1922.
  • Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

    Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.18, Vintage
  • When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

  • The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

    Wise   Sports   Kings  
    Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.97, Innovations and Information
  • Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

    "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.
  • People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."

    "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.
  • The secrecy that shrouded the vote counting by the special election committee cast doubts on the results and lacks transparency.

  • Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 695-96, Oedipus, 826, 1922.
  • Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

    "Julian Assange: The Byline Interviews, Part One – ‘The God of Mass Surveillance". Interview with Seung-yoon Lee, www.byline.com. June 11, 2015.
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