Quotes About Keeping Secrets & Telling Secrets
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Publilius Syrus
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today.
Proverb
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones
François de La Rochefoucauld
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
St. Augustine
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire
The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
Marla Maples
If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Daniel Webster
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Joseph Conrad
A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean de la Bruyère
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson
It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost
What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
Chinese Proverb
There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.
Carl Sagan
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
Robert Heinlein
Love is when one person knows all of your secrets... [and] does not think any less of you.
Anonymous
Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon & the truth.
G. Siddartha
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
John Dryden
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
Margaret Atwood
[Secret thoughts] run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, & light, without shame or blame
T.Hobbes
All women are natural born espionage agents.
Eddy Cantor
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them.
A. Haden-Guest
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard
Secrets are made to be found out with time.
Charles Sanford
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.
E. Howe
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
K.Gibran
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
