Secrets Quotes

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Don DeLillo

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

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Baltasar Gracian

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Sydney J. Harris

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld