Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

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

I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.

Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

Sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

Trust comes from transparency…

When I make a promise about keeping something in confidence, I do.

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.

I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Your word is your bond.

I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I'm good at keeping secrets.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

Honor your commitments with integrity.

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.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

What you would hide from an enemy don't tell a friend.

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

For me, politics is giving your word, standing by it, and abiding by it no matter what.

I have never moved away from my promises to people.

I'm actually really good at keeping secrets.

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