The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Quotes
Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCOnce suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCSecrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625