To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

Anonymous¹, Proverb

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

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues².

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

The best way to divulge³ a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.

Charles Fleischer, TED⁴ Talk: All things are Moleeds, February 2005

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005

If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

David Nicholls, One Day, 2010

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Diane Ackerman

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly⁵ sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque⁶ form, thus incurring⁷ no end of criticism to rebound⁸ upon you.

Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Kenneth Tynan

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)

Secret thoughts and open countenance⁹ will go safely over the whole world.

Scipione Alberti