John Dryden Quotes

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

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?

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.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

Sometimes you have to keep things very close to your own chest in your life, or this life.

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends

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

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

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.

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.

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

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

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

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

When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

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

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

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.