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There is a skeleton on every house. - Unattributed Author, Italian Tales of Humour, Gallantry and Romance, a saying in a story A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love. - Antiphanes of Macedonia, Fragmenta Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God,--part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly. - Francis Bacon Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success. - Francis Bacon As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature--in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing--he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural. - Honore de Balzac Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. - Honore de Balzac With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle. - Honore de Balzac The yearnings of a woman's solitary spirit, the outgushings of her shrinking sensibility, the cravings of her alienated heart, are indulged only in the quiet loneliness of her solitude. - Bethmont 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, Acts (ch. XXVI, v. 26) 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, Deuteronomy (ch. XXIX, v. 29) 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, II Samuel (ch. I, v. 20) For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. - Bible, Luke (ch. VIII, v. 17) When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors--Of speaking Under the Rose--Pseudodoxia (5, 23) Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.] - as given in Peiter Burmann, Anthologia (bk. V, 217) Deep in my shut and silent heart. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) In that corroding secrecy which gnaws the heart to show the effect, but not the cause. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. - Thomas Carlyle Secrecy is best taught by commencing with ourselves. - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort A secret is like silence: you cannot talk about it, and keep it. It is like money; when once you know there is any concealed, it is half discovered. - Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith) For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Ten Commandments of Love (41) If a fool knows a secret, he tells it because he is a fool; if a knave knows one, he tells it wherever it is his interest to tell it. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Women and young men are very apt to tell what secrets they know from the vanity of having been intrusted. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. - George Colman ("The Younger") Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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