To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
Anonymous1, Proverb
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues2.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The best way to divulge3 a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.
Charles Fleischer, TED4 Talk: All things are Moleeds, February 2005
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!
David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Diane Ackerman
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly5 sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque6 form, thus incurring7 no end of criticism to rebound8 upon you.
Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
Trade your secrets and become who you are.
Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
Secret thoughts and open countenance9 will go safely over the whole world.
Scipione Alberti
