Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

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

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 was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

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

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

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

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.

I keep everything that's private private.

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

You don't want everyone to know everything about you.

I'm not a gossip. The worst thing anyone can say to me is, 'Ooh, I've got some gossip.' I'm like, 'Oh, shut up.'

Some things should remain private.

I was always taught to keep things private.

I'm not exposing anything thats private - that's one thing I won't do.

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.

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

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

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.

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

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.