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Quotations by Subject: Secrets
(Related Subjects: Truth, Lies, Gossip)
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To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.: Anonymous, Proverb
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.: Charles Fleischer, TED Talk: All things are Moleeds, February 2005
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.: Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.: Diane Ackerman
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
Trade your secrets and become who you are.: Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.: Kenneth Tynan
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.: Scipione Alberti


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