Truman Capote Quotes

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.

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

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

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.

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

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

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly.

A secret spoken finds wings.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

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

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.

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

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.

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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.

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.

Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.