Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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.

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.

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

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

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

I'm good at keeping secrets.

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

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

I'm not good at keeping secrets.

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

I'm actually really good at keeping secrets.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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

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

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.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually.

For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.