Ben Macintyre Quotes

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

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

I can't keep secrets for crap.

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

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

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

I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.

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.

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.

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

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

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.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

I don't keep secrets because I'm no good at them!

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

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.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

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

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

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.