Secrets 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, 1998Quotes
Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860For 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, 1823The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977I 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, 1625Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCThree may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895