Keeping Secrets Quotes - Page 2

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

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

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action necessary. I had to see people for who they were. I had to understand why I made the choices I did. Why I had given them my loyalty. I had to make changed. I had to stop allowing love to be dangerous. I had to learn how to protect myself. But first… I had to look

Secrets are made to be found out with time.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

There is a lurking fear that some things are not “meant" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.