Audre Lorde Quotes

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

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

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Do not betray the people.

Silence is worth a thousand pieces of silver.

Tell never thy counsel to thy foe.

Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.

If you want to keep the relationships you have, it's best not to talk about them.

I'll take a secret to my grave. I'm really good at that.