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33 Secrecy Quotes

Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]

Sir Thomas Browne Quotes , Source: Vulgar Errors--Of speaking Under the Rose--Pseudodoxia (5, 23)

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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.

John Dryden Quotes

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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes , Source: Oedipus (826)

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Thee is a skeleton on every house.

Unattributed Author Quotes , Source: Italian Tales of Humour, Gallantry and Romance, s saying in a story

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A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.

Antiphanes of Macedonia Quotes , Source: Fragmenta

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For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.

Bible Quotes , Source: Acts (ch. XXVI, v. 26)

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The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Bible Quotes , Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XXIX, v. 29)

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Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Bible Quotes , Source: II Samuel (ch. I, v. 20)

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For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

Bible Quotes , Source: Luke (ch. VIII, v. 17)

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When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Thomas Browne,

Sir Thomas Browne Quotes , Source: Vulgar Errors--Of speaking Under the Rose--Pseudodoxia (5, 23)

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For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.

Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes , Source: The Ten Commandments of Love (41)

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Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes , Source: Poor Richard

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As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. - Gen. Thomas Harrison,

Gen. Thomas Harrison Quotes , Source: Defence at his trial--Account of the Trial of Twenty Regicides (p. 39)

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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. [Lat., Arcanum neque tu scrutaveris ullius unquam, commissumve teges et vino tortus et ira.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes , Source: Epistles (I, 18, 37)

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We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans l'amour.]

Jean de la Bruyere Quotes , Source: Les Caracteres (IV)

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When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

Jean de la Bruyere Quotes , Source: Les Caracteres (V)

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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. [Fr., Rien ne pese tant qu'un secret: Le porter loin est difficile aux dames; Et je sais meme sur ce fait Bon nombre d'hommes que sont femmes.]

Jean de La Fontaine Quotes , Source: Fables (VIII, 6)

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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes , Source: Maxims (no. 90)

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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) Quotes , Source: De Rerum Natura (IV, 1,182)

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I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

Philip Massinger Quotes , Source: Unnatural Combat (act V, sc. 2)

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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik) Quotes , Source: Magnus and Morna (sc. 2)

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He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den kleinsten Theil eines Geheimnisses hingibt, hat den andern nicht mehr in der Gewalt.]

Jean Paul Richter Quotes , Source: Titan (zykel 123)

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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes , Source: Hippolytus (876)

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I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed 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 Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)

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But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

William Shakespeare Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)

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