quotations about secrets
A secret is most valuable when it remains a secret.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Corrino
A wise man is he who keeps his own secrets.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Sometimes it's our secrets that define us.
BRITNEY SPEARS
interview, August 25, 2011
Secrets are pleasant to each child of Eve.
HANNAH COWLEY
The Runaway
Lay your head on my pillow
Here you can be yourself
No one has to know what you are feeling
No one but me and you
I won't tell your secrets
ALICIA KEYS
"Diary"
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
Country Town Sayings
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN
The Lover's Watch, Four o'clock
Women, of whatever age, share secrets with each other more readily than they share them with men.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
Game of Patience
Those who cannot keep their own secrets ought not to be entrusted with the secrets of others.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
FRANK HERBERT
Children of Dune
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
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
He who cannot keep his own secret ought not to complain if another tells it.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanac, July 1735
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots and give themselves away. They have to. It's their nature. Just a tiny green stem at first. Which slowly, insidiously grows taller, stronger, unfolding itself, until there it is. A big fat secret, right in front of your face; a fully bloomed flower perfumed with the scent of deception.
JUDY REENE SINGER
Still Life With Elephant
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
LISA UNGER
Beautiful Lies
Any man who has no secrets from his wife either has no secrets or no wife.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips and Quotes
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
GEORGE ORWELL
1984