Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I've never had anything to hide.

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.

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

I find sharing intimate details with people that you don't know an interesting concept. I like to keep some things to myself.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

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

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

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.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

Secrecy is essential to committee deliberations because members would be wary of exploring ideas or exchanging views if there were a substantial possibility of an embarrassing leak.

I was never any good at keeping secrets.

I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.

I am not a very private person, but there are certain things that I don't want to share with everyone.

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

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

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

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

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.