George R. R. Martin Quotes

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?

Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.

Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

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.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

The best way to keep a secret is to never have it.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

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?

In those days secrets were well kept.

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

The hearts of freemen are the tombs of secrets.

They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.