Honore de Balzac Quotes

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.

With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

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

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

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

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Beware the viper in your closet. Isn’t that another thing you’re always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.