Kenneth Grahame Quotes

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

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

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

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.

I said, "Do you think she thinks it's me?" Jas said, "Well, it's pretty conclusive, isn't it? She said 'the most sniveling idiot I have ever come across.'" I said, "I didn't know that YOU have been seeing Masimo. Tom the Slug King is going to be very upset.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

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

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

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

Everyone always says more than they're supposed to.

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.