quotations about secrets
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
The only secret that has ever been kept is -- well, that is a secret.
E. P. DAY
Day's Collacon
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
SENECA
Oedipus
Keep your secrets; if you have rice hide it under your unhusked corn.
KADIR MUNSHI
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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