SECRETS QUOTES

quotations about secrets

Secrets quote

A secret is most valuable when it remains a secret.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino

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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

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Secrets are pleasant to each child of Eve.

HANNAH COWLEY

The Runaway

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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

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

APHRA BEHN

The Lover's Watch, Four o'clock

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

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs


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

SUSANNE ALLEYN

Game of Patience

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

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune

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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

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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

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

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac, July 1735

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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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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

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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

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