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 | "Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most
difficult." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and
vices of another or yourself." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "From my close observation of writers ... they fall into two groups:
1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those
who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it
ourselves." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "I know that"s a secret, for it"s whispered everywhere." | |
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William Congreve
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| "I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that
they would keep it a secret." | |
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Walter Winchell
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| "Keep a secret, it"s your slave. Tell it, and it"s your
master." | |
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William Henry
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| "O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night,
In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark
secret love Does thy life destroy." | |
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William Blake
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| "Secrecy and a free, democratic government don?t mix." | |
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Harry S. Truman
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| "Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you"ve
got it made." | |
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Jean Giraudoux
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| "There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody
guesses." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away." | |
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John Heywood
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| "To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is
folly." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room,
turns over your papers." | |
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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