More quotations tagged with “secrets”
Trade your secrets and become who you are.
—Saint Jerome
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.
—Kenneth Tynan
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
—Kahlil Gibran
If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!
—George Bernard Shaw
The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.
—Diane Ackerman