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
Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.
JEAN FERRIS
Once Upon a Marigold
If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still.
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
SENECA
Oedipus
Keep your secrets; if you have rice hide it under your unhusked corn.
KADIR MUNSHI
attributed, Day's Collacon
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