Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Quotes
The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCI 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 a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCSecrets 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, 1998If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735