Tracy Chevalier Quotes

I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Secrecy is essential to committee deliberations because members would be wary of exploring ideas or exchanging views if there were a substantial possibility of an embarrassing leak.

Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

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.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

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

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

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

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.