Chanakya Quotes

Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

Bureaucracy always seeks the path of least disclosure.

If we cannot keep secrets, it is impossible for our leaders to have the adequate information on which to base their policies.

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

When you tell a secret - always know it will be told.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

There is very seldom any true secret.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.