Quotes on Keeping Secrets

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

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

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

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.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

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

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

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

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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

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