Jane Ridley Quotes

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Tell your friends a lie; if they keep it secret, tell them the truth.

The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.

Keeping secrets is hard.

I don't think it's healthy to have secrets; they hang over a family for generations.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

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.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

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

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

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.

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

I remember I had a fight with my friend when I touched a boy for the first time and I didn't tell her. She got mad with me, not because I didn't tell her but because I'd done it in the first place.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Do not betray the people.

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

I don't have any skeletons in my closet.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

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