Keeping Secrets Quotes

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

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

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

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

All women are natural born espionage agents.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

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

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action necessary. I had to see people for who they were. I had to understand why I made the choices I did. Why I had given them my loyalty. I had to make changed. I had to stop allowing love to be dangerous. I had to learn how to protect myself. But first… I had to look

Secrets are made to be found out with time.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.

There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.