Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

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

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'm very good at keeping a secret.

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

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

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

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

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

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.

I'm good at keeping secrets.

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

Some secrets are meant to be taken to the grave, and that's what I plan on doing with all mine. They're not necessarily my secrets to tell. I'm the gatekeeper of other people's secrets.

It is a secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time.

They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends

The best way to keep a secret is to never have it.

I'd never discuss anything confidential.

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.

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.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

Not everything is meant for all to hear.