Quotations about

Secrets

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

—Wilson Mizner

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

—Kenneth Tynan

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

—Liane Moriarty in The Husband's Secret

To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

—Unknown

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

—Benjamin Franklin

The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.

—Diane Ackerman

If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

—George Bernard Shaw

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

—Kahlil Gibran

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

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

—Saint Jerome

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

—Scipione Alberti

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

—Unknown

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

—Unknown

Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.

—Unknown