Keeping Secrets famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
-- Alexander Smith -
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
-- Andre Malraux -
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 -
It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
-- Caitlin Moran -
There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.
-- Carl Sagan -
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
-- Daniel Webster -
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
-- Deb Caletti -
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
-- Diane Ackerman -
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
-- Dorothy Dix -
All women are natural born espionage agents.
-- Eddie Cantor -
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.
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
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 -
I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.
-- Emily Osment -
Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.
-- Eric S. Raymond -
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
-- Gloria Stuart -
I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt -
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.
-- Jessica Chastain -
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.
-- Joyce Maynard -
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.
-- Kate Morton -
I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.
-- Keri Russell -
Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.
-- Laura Esquivel -
Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
-- Lisa See -
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
-- Margaret Atwood -
The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
-- Marla Maples -
I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!
-- Miley Cyrus -
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.
-- Nalini Singh -
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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 -
I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.
-- Steven Yeun -
Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.
-- Tanya Huff -
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 -
The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.
-- Thomas Powers -
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 -
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
-- Walter Winchell -
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
-- Gerald Priestland
