Daniel Handler Quotes

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business.

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

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 think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.