Sara Shepard Quotes

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

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

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.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

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

We don't need secrecy.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

I've got nothing to hide.

Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

Secrets don’t make friends.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

I'm really bad at keeping secrets.

I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.

I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

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

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.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.