If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Quotes
For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCThe life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621