W. H. Auden Quotes

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

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

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

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Keeping secrets is hard.

I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.

I know that you can only keep a secret a secret for so long.

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

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.

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

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

I've got nothing to hide.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

I'm good at keeping secrets.

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

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.