To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Secrets 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, 1998