Secrets Quotes

Make war offensively; it is the sole means to become a great captain and to fathom the secrets of the art.

The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. Make them your models. This is the only way to become a great general and to master the secrets of the art of war. With your own genius enlightened by this study, you will reject all maxims opposed to those of these great commanders.

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.