Georg Simmel Quotes

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

A secret spoken finds wings.

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

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

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

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

It's not my habit to kiss and tell. I've never done it.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.

Who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.

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

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

When you tell a secret - always know it will be told.

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

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

I hope they don't reveal everything they know about me.