Gregory David Roberts Quotes

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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

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

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

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.

Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

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

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

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