Dean Koontz Quotes

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

Wine is wont to show the mind of man.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.