Keeping Secrets Quotes

• 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

  Betrayal, Eye, Demise

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Kept Secrets, Secrecy

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Wind, Gossip

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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

  Gloria Stuart

  Ocean, Heart, Titanic Movie

  "Fictional character: Old Rose". "Titanic", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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

  Diane Ackerman

  Mirrors, Knowing Who You Are, Looks

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1991.

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• My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

  Mick Jagger

  Secret, Poetic, Believable

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• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Hilarious, 4th Of July

  Poor Richard's Almanac for 1735 and 1741.

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• Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Giving, Secret, Kept Secrets

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Secrets are made to be found out with time.

  Charles S. Sanford, Jr.

  Secret, Made, Found

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• The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Secret

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• The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Secret, Way, Best Way

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.407, Anchor

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Kept Secrets, Facts

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

  Walter Winchell

  People, Secret, Stuff

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

  Dorothy Dix

  Punishment, Silence, Soul

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• Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

  Paul Tournier

  Love, Dream, Lonely

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• I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets

  Drake

  Break Up, Breakup, Together

  Song: Karaoke, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Half, Secrecy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.21

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• 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

  Thinking, America, Two

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• What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Littles, Miserable

  ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”

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• Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

  Roald Dahl

  Eye, Secret Places, Magic In The World

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• Alchemists turned into chemists
  when they stopped keeping secrets.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Knowledge, Alchemist, Management

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• He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

  John Dryden

  Trust, Confidence, Masters

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  People, Kept Secrets, Shadow Of The Wind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.21, Penguin

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• ...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

  Stephen King

  Men, Secret, Comfortable

  Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alexander Smith

  Wise, Secret, Taciturn

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.65

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