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Quotes about Secrecy

For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.”
- John 7:4
For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
- Ephesians 5:12
You only need to hide if you're doing something you shouldn't.
- Paulo Coelho
That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing.
- Donald Trump
The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.
- Peter Mullan
If I don't tell anyone, it'll never be true.
- Lisa Wingate
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings
- John F. Kennedy
Fear puts an end to openness; fear leads to secrecy; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy and leads to many lies.
- JC Ryle
Satan wants us to sneak things in secret.
- Lysa TerKeurst
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
- Cicero
Never had any boy begged apples as Orlando begged paper; nor sweetmeats as he begged ink. Stealing away from talk and games, he had hidden himself behind curtains, in priest's holes, or in the cupboard behind his mother's bedroom which had a great hole in the floor and smelt horribly of starling's dung, with an inkhorn in one hand, a pen in another, and on his knee a roll of paper.
- Virginia Woolf
They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.
- Virginia Woolf