Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

—Proverb

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

—Marlene Dietrich

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.

—John Chadwick

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

—Henry Taylor

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

—Samuel Johnson

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.

—Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

—Seneca

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

—Edgar Watson Howe

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

—Benjamin Franklin

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

—Paul Tournier

A secret at home is like rocks under the tide.

—Dinah Maria Mulock

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

—Walter Winchell

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

—Charles Colton

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

—Bill Moyers

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

—Anton Chekhov