Secrecy

“Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.”

“I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.”

“Truly your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a Revealer of secrets, because you were able to reveal this secret.”

“As for you, Daniel, keep the words secret, and seal up the book until the time of the end. Many will rove about, and the true knowledge will become abundant.”

“Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.”

“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”

“Every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest.”

“Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret.”

“Is a secret still a secret if everyone knows it?”

“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.”

“If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,Give it an understanding, but no tongue.”

“But that I am forbid,Would harrow up thy soul.”

“Two may keep counsel, putting one away.”

“Two may keep counsel when the third's away.”

“There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.”

“Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.”

“The secret is the secret.”

“I think of secrets of lies.”

“Before a stranger do nothing that should be kept secret, for you do not know what it will produce later on.”

“For this thing was not done in a corner.”

“A man can hide all things, excepting twain— That he is drunk, and that he is in love.”

“When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.”

“For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.”

“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.”

“As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.”

“There is a skeleton on every house.”

“How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.”

“Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.”

“I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believeMine own could not contain.”

“Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askelon.”

“Under the rose, since here are none but friends,(To own the truth) we have some private ends.”

“Let your left hand turn away what your right hand attracts.”