It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Quotes
For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Nothing 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, 1998Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCIf the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891