| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin | Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. |
| Bible | For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. |
| Bible | The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. |
| Bible | Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. |
| Bible | For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. |
| Ed Howe | Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. |
| Elbert Hubbard | Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. |
| Gen Thomas Harrison | As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. |
| Jean Paul Richter | He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. |
| Johann Kaspar Lavater | Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. |
| Philip Massinger | I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain. |
| Sir Thomas Browne | When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Thomas Browne, |
| Sir Thomas Browne | Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. |
| Walter Winchell | I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Never inquire into another man's secret, bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. |
| John Dryden | He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master. |
| Samuel Johnson | To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly. |
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