Louisa May Alcott Quotes

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

Trust comes from transparency…

...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

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

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.

His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.

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.

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.

I tell my wife all my secrets.

A secret spoken finds wings.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

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

Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.

Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

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

Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.

Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?

It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.