Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

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

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

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

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.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

When you tell a secret - always know it will be told.

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

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

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

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

What you would hide from an enemy don't tell a friend.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

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

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.

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