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Secrecy: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Stall this in your bosom.— A. W. i. 3.

Masking the business from the common eye.— M. iii. 1.

When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the grave of it.— A. W. iv. 3.

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.— H. i. 2.

'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.— H. i. 3,

Thou wilt not trust the air with secrets.— Tit. And. iv. 2.

Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, And breath of life, I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me.— H. iii. 4

I know you wise; but yet no further wise, Than Harry Percy's wife; constant you are; But yet a woman: and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe, Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know; And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.— H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 3

But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul.— H. i. 5

This secret is so weighty, 'twill require A strong faith to conceal it.— H. V. III. ii. 1

Two may keep counsel, putting one away. A juggling trick to be secretly open.— T.C. v. 2.