Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

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

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

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

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

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

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?

We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

It is a secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time.

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

Keeping secrets is hard.

Everybody has secrets.

I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.