Famous Quotes | A proper secrecy is the only...
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Jan. 15, 1753, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. IV, p. 298, London (1774). One of the Maxims enclosed with Chesterfield’s letter of this date.
Categories: Man Of Letters, Mystery, Secrets, Statesman
