Quotes About Secrets

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Blood tells—always remember that—blood tells." -- Hercule Poirot

Sabía que la secuela de las confidencias era la vergüenza

It is odd, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. I burst immediately into indignant speech.

Mr Goby turned over another leaf of his notebook and selected his confidante: he chose an electric radiator...

Can't you ever leave murder alone, woman? Even murder in retrospect?

Why not have told me the truth?" he countered. "In a place like this, all Ralph Paton's doings were bound to be known. If your sister had not happened to pass through the wood that day somebody else would have done

You will not give away a lady's secret?

Everybody knows everybody else's secrets and that they enter into a kind of conspiracy to pretend that they don't.

And let me tell you something, mademoiselle – in the course of my experience I have known five cases of wives murdered by devoted husbands, and twenty-two of husbands murdered by devoted wives. Les femmes, they obviously keep up appearances better.

I wonder, Miss Marple," I said suddenly, "if you were to commit a murder whether you would ever be found out." "What a terrible idea," said Miss Marple, shocked. "I hope I could never do such a wicked thing.

They left the cabin. Race locked the door and took the key with him. "We can come back later," he said. "The first thing to do is to get all the facts clear.

Mr Blore was writing carefully in a little notebook. 'That's the lot,' he muttered to himself. 'Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne, Dr Armstrong, Anthony Marston, old Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, General Macarthur, CMG, DSO, Manservant and wife: Mr and Mrs Rogers.

More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The

A man tells to his mistress what he does not always tell to his wife.

My ideas were completely upset. I could not see Ackroyd taking a hairdresser into his confidence,

My dear Aunt," said Raymond West with some amusement, "I didn't mean that sort of village incident. I was thinking of murders and disappearances—the kind of thing that Sir Henry could tell us about by the hour if he liked.

Miss Debenham, whose second name is Hermione,

There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me—the truth.

Soldier Island, eh? There's a fly in the ointment.

El destino parece a veces burlarse de los serers humanos complaciéndose en descubrir lo que éstos quisieran conservar secreto.

From now on, it is our task to suspect each and every one amongst us

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically.