Best 55 quotes in «keeping secrets quotes» category

When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.

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

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

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

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

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

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

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

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

I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets. I'm one of those people who is like, "Let me tell you what happened today. You're never going to believe it!

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet." Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

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.

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.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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

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.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

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

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.

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.

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

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

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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

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

A little amount of secret is a great pillar of the mind. He who does not have what somebody does not know, have what everybody knows. Know your secret; keep your secret. He who knows what to keep, knows what real life is all about

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

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

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.

I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.

Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)

For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.

Augustine’s lips tense into a line. “Oh, for the gods’ sakes, Little Jac,” he snaps. “We know Lucent wasn’t just your riding companion.” At her stunned expression, Augustine laughs. “You are good at many things, but you are horrible at keeping your love interests a secret.