David Nicholls Quotes

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

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

Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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

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.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

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

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

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

A clear conscience is a sure card.

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

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

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.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That's your call

I have long observed one Rule .... It is simply this, to be concern'd in no Affairs that I should blush to have made publick, and to do nothing but what spies may see ...

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

I have to be honest with myself, and make sure I am doing things the right way.

I've never had anything to hide.

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

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.