SECRET QUOTES
quotations about secrets
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Secrets are pleasant to each child of Eve.
HANNAH COWLEY, The Runaway
To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
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.
SIGMUND FREUD, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac, July 1735
A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison.
JENNIFER LEE CARRELL, Interred With Their Bones
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.
Secrecy, like oil on the body of a wrestler, makes an opponent slippery.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN, The Lover's Watch, Four o'clock
A wise man is he who keeps his own secrets.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.
DAN BROWN, The Da Vinci Code
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
PAUL TOURNIER, quoted in 1000 Pocket Positives: Inspiring Quotations
Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.
PAUL CHRISTOPHER, The Lucifer Gospel
- I shall know you, secrets
- by the litter you have left
- and by your bloody footprints.
Those who cannot keep their own secrets ought not to be entrusted with the secrets of others.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Women, of whatever age, share secrets with each other more readily than they share them with men.
SUSANNE ALLEYN, Game of Patience
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
Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
FRANK HERBERT, Children of Dune
Secrecy is the cement of friendship.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
EDEN PHILLPOTTS, A Shadow Passes
A secret is most valuable when it remains a secret.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
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