Thursday, 14 February 2019

Secret - Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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