quotations about secrets
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères
Let not thy ear teach thy tongue any secret of a friend.
MAMMATI
attributed, Day's Collacon
To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
A secret in his mouth is like a wild bird put into a cage, whose door no sooner opens than it is out.
BEN JONSON
The Case Is Altered
Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.
DAN BROWN
The Da Vinci Code
In vain I send my soul into the dark, where never burn the lamps of science, nor the natural light of reason's sun and stars! I cannot learn their great and solemn meanings, nor discern the awful secrets of the eyes which turn evermore on us through the day and night with silent challenge and a dumb demand, proffering the riddles of the dead unknown, like the calm Sphinxes, with their eyes of stone.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
"Trust", The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier