quotations about secrets
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
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
Let not thy ear teach thy tongue any secret of a friend.
MAMMATI
attributed, Day's Collacon
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