Sayings about Secrets
A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing. ~ Arabian Proverb
Have an open face, but conceal your thoughts. ~ Italian Proverbs
Do not keep secret from your friend what your enemy already knows. ~ Danish Proverbs
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away. ~ Chinese Proverb
Women can keep only one secret — their own. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Nothing is such a heavy burden as a secret is. ~ French Proverb
Wine lets secrets out. ~ Chinese Proverb
Mother earth promised to tell her secrets to heaven. ~ Serbian Proverbs
Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself. ~ Greek Proverbs
Truth fears nothing but concealment. ~ Traditional Proverb
Never do anything that you want to remain a secret. ~ Chinese Proverb
So long as I can keep a secret it is my prisoner. If I let it slip then I am its prisoner. ~ Arabian Proverb
Do not do all you can, do not spend all that you have, do not believe all that you hear, and do not tell all that you know. ~ Chinese Proverb
To whom you tell your secrets you resign your liberty. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Sharing a secret with a rogue is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs
When two friends part they have to lock up each other’s secrets and throw away the key. ~ Hebrew Proverb
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals. ~ Latin Proverbs
A secret for two is soon a secret for nobody. ~ Algerian Proverbs
Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Alms given openly will be rewarded in secret. ~ Chinese Proverb
Part with your head, but not with your secret. ~ Kurdish Proverb
The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. ~ American Proverbs
Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves. ~ Spanish Proverb
It is not a secret if it is known by three people. ~ Irish Proverbs
When the Nile knows a secret the desert will soon know it too. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power. ~ German Proverbs
A secret between two is God’s secret, between three is all men’s. ~ Spanish Proverb
Cover up the good you do — do like the Nile and conceal your sources. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
The sober man’s secret is the drunkard’s speech. ~ Russian Proverbs
Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. ~ Spanish Proverb
Wine makes secrets float to the surface. ~ German Proverb
In strategy, secrecy is highly regarded. ~ Japanese Proverb
The secret of two no further will go; the secret of three a hundred will know. ~ Spanish Proverb
Your secret is your blood — when you shed it you die. ~ Berber Proverb
Do not tell secrets in front of servants. ~ Arabian Proverb
The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime. ~ Traditional Proverb
To sin in secret is more pleasant than having pleasure in the open. ~ Iranian Proverbs
No blessing is bestowed on a secret. ~ Yiddish Proverb
The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~ French Proverb
Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak. ~ Russian Proverb
The secret of two people is God’s secret, the secret of three people is everybody’s secret. ~ French Proverb
Pregnancy and fire cannot be kept secret. ~ Rwandan Proverb
After nine months the secret comes out. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men. ~ Latin Proverb
Quotations about Secrets
Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the “need to know”, perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. ~ More!
A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them. ~ Joseph Conrad
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ~ Cardinal De Richelieu
How shall we hope that another person will keep our secret if we do not keep it ourselves? ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Secrets travel fast in Paris. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. ~ Walter Winchell
There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. ~ Samuel Johnson
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. ~ Samuel Johnson
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. ~ Alexander Smith
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. ~ Don Delillo
Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. ~ Robert Frost
Nothing is easier than to keep a secret: There needs no more but to shut one’s mouth. ~ Author Unknown
It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Three can keep a secret if two are dead. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Secrecy is the badge of fraud. ~ Sir John Chadwick
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. ~ Victor Hugo
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a ret. ~ Sir Henry Taylor
How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ~ Charles Dickens
I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere. ~ William Congreve
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ~ Bible
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. ~ Jeremy Taylor
I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. ~ Sydney Smith
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ~ Samuel Johnson
Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~ Mark Twain
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ~ Daniel C. Gelman
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret. ~ Jean De La Fontaine
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. ~ Sir Henry Taylor
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
A man keeps another’s secret better than he does his own. A woman, on the other hand, keeps her own better than another’s. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. ~ Sigmund Freud
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ~ Ibn Gabirol