Keeping Secrets Quotes - Page 2

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Enemy, Kept Secrets

  "The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac".

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Secret, Has Beens, Ifs

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• A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

  Lauren Oliver

  Good Friend, Best Kept Secrets, Helping

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.47, HarperCollins

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Guilt, Confession

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

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• 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.

  Don DeLillo

  Men, Needs, Want

  1988 Walter Everett, Jr. Libra, pt.1,'17 April'.

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• Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

  Laura Esquivel

  Communication, Keys, Unhappiness

  Laura Esquivel (2002). “Swift as Desire”, Random House

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• A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

  Paul Valery

  Reality, Men, Secret

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

  Miley Cyrus

  Want, Very Good, Ifs

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• 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. W. Howe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 9, 1911.

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

  Emily Eden

  Fool, Instinct, Secret Life

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120

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• If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

  George Orwell

  Nineteen, Kept Secrets, Want

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 4 (1949)

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Littles, Faults

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• Trade your secrets and become who you are.

  Frank Warren

  Secret, Trade, Who You Are

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Secret

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Literature, Sides

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.2311, e-artnow

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• There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Best Kept Secrets, Criminal Mind, Darkest Secrets

  1898 Sir George Crofts. Mrs Warren's Profession, act 3.

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• No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, People, Gossip

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.50, Routledge

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Les Miserable

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Next, Faults, Innocent

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• The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.

  Thomas Powers

  Secret, Paper, Firsts

  The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979).

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• In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.

  Bell Hooks

  Confused, Space, Healthy

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• 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

  Good Friend, Nervous, Can Do

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Powers

  Writing, People, Paper

  The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979).

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• One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Our Words, Use, Our Thoughts

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• Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

  Ellen Barkin

  Art, Giving, Theatre

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