Secrets - Quotes

A secret is a kind of promise … It can also be a prison. - Jennifer Lee Carrell

A secret is most valuable when it remains a secret. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Andeson

A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the “Masonic secret.” What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power. - Umberto Eco

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A wise man is he who keeps his own secrets. - William Scott Downey

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 Bruyere

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. - Ronald Dahl

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. - George Washington Carver

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. - William Thackeray

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it. - Anthony Trollope

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage. - Stefan Zweig

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. -Sophocles

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world. - Unknown

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity. - Lord Acton

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools. - John Dryden

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

He who cannot keep his own secret ought not to complain if another tells it. - Eliza Cook

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don’t dare to let out. - Ally Carter

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed. - Jean de la Bruyere

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner ... if I let it slip from my tongue, I am its prisoner. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

It is wise not to seek a secret; and honest, not to reveal one. - William Penn

In the deeper recesses of every heart is a store of hoarded secrets. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. - Sydney J. Harris

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain. - John le Carre

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

Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. - French Proverb

Nothing is easier than to keep a secret: there needs no more than to shut one’s mouth. - Unknown

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. - Paul Tournier

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester. - Paul Christopher

Secrets are easy to hear and hard to keep. - Ken Alstad

Secrecy is the cement of friendship. - Wellins Calcott

Secrecy, like oil on the body of a wrestler, makes an opponent slippery. - Austin O’Malley

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

Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent. - Jean de la Bruyere

Some secrets are fires so scorching, the only way to quench the burn is to tell someone. - Terri Guillemets

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. - Proverb

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

The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it. - Charles Fleischer

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you. - Elizabeth Aston

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. - Edgar Watson Howe

The moment a secret is revealed, it seems little. - Umberto Eco

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. - Ayn Rand

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer. - Frank Herbert

The trouble with secrets is that they are either not good enough to keep or they are too good to keep. - Unknown

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

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret. - Marlene Dietrich

Those who cannot keep their own secrets ought not to be entrusted with the secrets of others. - William Scott Downey

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin

To keep your own secrets is wisdom; but to expect others to keep them is folly. - William Scott Downey

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. - Henry Ward Beecher

Trust no one, tell your secrets to nobody and no one will ever betray you. - Bigvai Volcy

Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in the magic will never find it! - Roald Dahl

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment. - Eden Phillpotts

When entrusted with a secret, keep it. - Unknown

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

Women, of whatever age, share secrets with each other more readily than they share them with men. - Susanne Alleyn

You can take better care of your secret than another can. So, if you want to keep a secret, keep it to yourself. - Unknown

You have to believe in yourself, that’s the secret. - Charlie Chaplin

You should not be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever – for the worse! - Unknown