quotations about secrets
This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.
SOPHIE KINSELLA
Shopaholic Ties the Knot
All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères
For every secret hangs in greater fear
Between the speaker's mouth and hearer's ear
Than any peril between cup and lip.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Keep Your Own Secret
Secrecy, like oil on the body of a wrestler, makes an opponent slippery.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Back to Methuselah
As the spider is not seen in his web, so are the secrets of a man concealed in his heart.
WAUKATAUKI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.
MICHELLE HODKIN
The Evolution of Mara Dyer
For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.
BIBLE
Luke 8:17
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Blind Assassin
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.
LORD ACTON
letter to Richard Simpson, January 23, 1861
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets, as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe
The bosom of a friend will hold a secret
Mine own could not contain.
PHILIP MASSINGER
Unnatural Combat
One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.
EDWIN H. LAND
address to Polaroid Corporation employees at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts, February 5, 1960
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
DON DELILLO
Underworld
In the deeper recesses of every heart is a store of hoarded secrets.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Whether it was one of your own or a friends, they can last a few years or mere hours. But one thing is for sure ... secrets are hard to keep, and more often than not, they don't stay hidden.
OLIVIA HAYES
"Keeping secrets has a very negative (and strange) effect on your body", Her, September 18, 2017
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
JAMES HOWELL
letter to Mr. R. Howard, Epistolae Ho-Elianae: The Familiar Letters of James Howell, February 14, 1647
You may know my personality, but my dreams, fears, fantasies, and secrets are only in my music.
CAMILA CABELLO
"Camila Cabello Admits She Was Terrified To Perform Without Fifth Harmony", International Business Times, September 22, 2017
Tell me what you want to hear
Something that will light those ears
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time, don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away
ONE REPUBLIC
"Secrets"
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
PAUL TOURNIER
attributed, 1000 Pocket Positives: Inspiring Quotations