Keeping Secrets Quotations

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

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

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

I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.

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.

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

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

I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.

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

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

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

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

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

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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

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

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

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

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

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.

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

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

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

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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

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

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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

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

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

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

In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

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.

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.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets. I'm one of those people who is like, "Let me tell you what happened today. You're never going to believe it!"

I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

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

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

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

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

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

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

There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.

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

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

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.