Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. — Jean De La Fontaine
Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love. — Laura Esquivel
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan
Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent. — Ludwig van Beethoven
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. — Charles Caleb Colton
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole. — African Proverbs
Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love. — Mary Alice Monroe
But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets. — Daniel Ellsberg
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. — Cory Doctorow
A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine. — Grace Kelly
Short Keeping Secrets Quotes
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. — Benjamin Franklin
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. — Muddy Waters
Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited. — Stephen White
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. — Alexander Smith
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. — George Bernard Shaw
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. — Paul Tournier
Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted. — Billy Graham
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. — Elizabeth I
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. — Walter Winchell
Top 10 Keeping Secrets Quotes
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself. — Neymar
If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours. — Tsugumi Ohba
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. — Maximilien Robespierre
I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret. — Nas
I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret. --L (Death Note) — Tsugumi Ohba
The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. — Sathya Sai Baba
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. — Proverbs
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God
manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of
the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and
the leaf. — Rumi
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking. — Fats Domino
Keeping Secrets Image Quotes
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. — Dennis Green
...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is. — Ann Voskamp
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets. — Andre Malraux
Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead
Friends Keeping Secrets Quotes
I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all. — Bobby Fischer
It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand. — Nancy Werlin
A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. — Lauren Oliver
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend. — Benjamin Franklin
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend. — Bhartrhari
I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends. — Robert Quillen
I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working. — Les Paul
I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous. — Julia Stiles
Lying And Keeping Secrets Quotes
The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise. — Alex Sanchez
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity. — Alafair Burke
You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. — Peter Singer
I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret! — Kirsten Prout
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you? — David Mitchell
"We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise. — Ally Carter
Not Keeping Secrets Quotes
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. — Chanakya
But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve." — Suzanne Collins
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers. — Walter Ulbricht
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. — Katharine Graham
I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me! — Miley Cyrus
If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness. — Muhammad Asad
We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people. — Andrew Keen
What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking about mathematics. God is keeping secrets from us, and it's fun to try to learn some of the secrets. — Paul Halmos
the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her! — Marie Corelli
There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield
Kept Secrets Quotes
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. — Sylvia Plath
His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life. — Veronica Roth
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths. — Melina Marchetta
The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day. — Frederick Lenz
Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets. — Aliko Dangote
When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change. — Joe Biden
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. — Stephen King
Time is the best kept secret of the rich. — Jim Rohn
Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery. — Liam Neeson
Sharing Secrets Quotes
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. — Chanakya
My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy. — Ron Paul
I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share. — Omar Khayyam
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand. — Pablo Neruda
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. — W. H. Auden
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator. — Peter Thiel
We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet. — Pam Brown
Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object. — J. I. Packer
Hidden Secrets Quotes
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Buddha
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us. — Teresa of Avila
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. — Mike Murdock
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. — William Goldman
Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. — Ahmad Shamloo
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dark Secrets Quotes
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. — Susanna Kaysen
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret. — Vernon Howard
The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets. — Sara Shepard
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified. — Winona Ryder
I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht
If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. — Jed Rubenfeld
All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Dirty Secrets Quotes
Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people. — Lisa Murkowski
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. — Muriel Spark
'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw. — Frank Miller
The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way. — Paul Schrader
When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out. — Charles Barkley
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism. — Henry Cisneros
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set. — Andrew Sullivan
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for. — Robert McKee
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms. — Charles Stross
Secrecy Quotes
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens. — Judith Lewis Herman
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. — Joseph Pulitzer
Oppression thrives in silence and secrecy. It withers under the bright light of truth. — Alexei Navalny
When you’re trying’ somethin’ new, the fewer people that know about it, the better. — American Proverbs
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. — Andrea Gibson
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
The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running. — Fauja Singh
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis. — Oswald Mosley
Often, the worst way to become prisoner of a system is to have a dream that things may turn better, there is always the possibility of change. Because it is precisely this secret dream that keeps you enslaved to the system. — Slavoj Žižek
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds. — Casey Stengel
Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself — Greek Proverbs
Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest, never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead, is where we truely belong.
Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will some day end, but that most of us just live to follow directions, and many times we end up totally lost. — Alex Gaskarth
It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoes or toilet paper. We should be making dollars any way we can. And we should be exporting arms any way and every way, openly and secretly, legally or by smuggling, I don't care how. — Nicolae Ceausescu
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected. — Baltasar Gracian
One of the things I keep reminding players is that when you're lost in a fog, you must stick together. Then you don't get lost. If there's a secret about Liverpool, that's it. — Bob Paisley
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping. — Kenneth Tynan
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons. — Bernard Williams
There are no shortcuts. Be patient and look long-term. It's a foolish idea that if you do a little more, faster, then you'll get better than the rest. It ignores the fact that you must train at your optimal level, not your maximum level. Consistency is the secret to improvement and success. You have to keep training when others lose interest. — Robert de Castella
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) — E. E. cummings
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. — William Lyon Phelps
Believers keep up and maintain their walk with God by secret prayer. The spirit of grace is always accompanied with the spirit of supplication. It is the very breath of the new creature, the fan of the divine life, whereby the spark of holy fire, kindled in the soul by God, is not only kept in, but raised into a flame. — George Whitefield
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. — Bob Woodward
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