Secret Quotes


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.
- La Fontaine


Oil and water --- woman and a secret --- are hostile properties.
- Bulwer-Lytton


Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum: the business asketh silent secrecy.
- Shakespeare


Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
- Harry S. Truman


Secrecy is the seal of speech, and occasion the seal of secrecy.
- Solon


Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.
- John Dryden


Secret path marks secret foe.
- Scott


Secret: What we tell everybody to tell nobody.
- Ambrose Bierce


Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
- Amy Tan