quotations about secrets
Keep your secrets; if you have rice hide it under your unhusked corn.
KADIR MUNSHI
attributed, Day's Collacon
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.
BIBLE
Deuteronomy 29:29
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
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
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
SENECA
Oedipus
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