quotations about secrets
Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
If we can face and uncover some of those uncomfortable truths, it allows us to take ownership of our secrets rather than our secrets owning us.
FRANK WARREN
"Frank Warren aims to share interesting secrets, celebrate people's stories at PostSecret Live event", Central Michigan Life, September 11, 2017
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
Emily Climbs
The best secrets are the most twisted.
SARA SHEPARD
Twisted
There are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.
ALLY CARTER
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, Hipponous
Secret heart
What are you made of?
What are you so afraid of?
Could it be three simple words
Or the fear of being overheard?
RON SEXSMITH
"Secret Heart"
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Lady Midnight
I know a secret, and secrets breed paranoia.
SIMON HOLT
The Devouring
The moment a secret is revealed, it seems little.
UMBERTO ECO
Foucault's Pendulum
We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
EDEN PHILLPOTTS
A Shadow Passes
He or she who admits the possession of a secret, has already half revealed it; certainly, it is a great deal gained toward the acquisition of treasure, to know exactly where it is.
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
For every secret hangs in greater fear
Between the speaker's mouth and hearer's ear
Than any peril between cup and lip.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Keep Your Own Secret
Secrets are easy to hear and hard to keep.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter -- they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.
SOPHIE KINSELLA
Shopaholic Ties the Knot
Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self. Everyone feels so alone inside that their deepest wish is for someone to know their secret being, because then they are alone no longer. Don't we all long for this? Yet when it's offered it's frightening, because you might not live up to the desires of the one who bestows the gift. And frightening because you know that accepting such a gift means you'll want -- perhaps be expected -- to offer a similar gift in return.
AIDAN CHAMBERS
This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of Society and of Conversation", Les Caractères