Sissela Bok Quotes

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

A man is entitled to a few secrets.

The hearts of freemen are the tombs of secrets.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!

My anonymity is something I treasure.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

In those days secrets were well kept.

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

I don't want people to know who I am.

Sometimes it's nice for people not to know anything about me.

I don't tell many people my last name.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

I don't talk about my private life.

It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.

A secret is a weapon and a friend.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

To whom you tell your secrets, to him you resign your liberty