Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.

I was never any good at keeping secrets.

I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

I've never had anything to hide.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We don't need secrecy.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

I'm really bad at keeping secrets.

I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?