Samuel Johnson Quotes

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

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

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

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

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

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?

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.

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?

I'm good at keeping secrets.

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 someone tells me something and asks me to keep it a secret, I always do.

I'm actually really good at keeping secrets.

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

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

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

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

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.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.

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

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.