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Quotes About Secrets

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.
~ Mason Cooley
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
~ Cesare Pavese
Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.
~ Paulo Coelho
People have thoughts they'd sooner not have. It happens in life.
~ Alice Munro
If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'
~ Bruce Jenner
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
~ Jeannette Walls
Life would be boring without gossip.
~ Vladimir Putin
Some things need to be left unsaid.
~ Simone Elkeles, Wild Cards
Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
~ Jewish proverb
Your friend has a friend don't tell him.
~ Jewish proverb
Home, I thought. Wasn't a home a private place? A place where the family could feel secure? How could strangers come and search through our secrets? If
~ Ji-li Jiang
Well, this time you're just going to have to stop yourself." Straightening up, Rupert grinned. "We don't want this to be spoiled, do we? Trust me, some secrets are better kept.
~ Jill Mansell
If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.
~ Jill Paton Walsh
I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.
~ Jim Coleman
Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
~ Jim Crace
At the most marginal of opportunities, Jake was fond of telling anyone within earshot the three great secrets of how to proceed when you don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing. The secrets, in the order he invariably listed them, were intuition, reason, and desperation.
~ Jim Dodge
I believe, as I am sure you believe, that eventually everything is known. Eventually it will become to somebody's interest to tell. Secrets are like meat; they can be frozen or eaten but not kept.
~ Jim Lehrer
some well-known
~ Jim Marrs
I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.
~ Jim Thompson
Leah used me. She picked me because somehow she knew I would keep her secrets. Somehow she knew I would do whatever she wanted. She knew I wouldn't stop her. Somehow she knew… . She knew part of me would like it.
~ Jo Knowles
Where were they going? What strange feminine secrets did they share in that last gay fateful hour?
~ Joan Lindsay
Jeff put his mouth close to Debbie's ear, hoping he wouldn't be overheard. "I think our answer is in the statue of Anubis." Debbie jumped. "Don't do that!" Jeff grumbled, pulling a strand of her hair from his mouth.
~ Joan Lowery Nixon
I wonder what's in the boxes," Debbie said. "There's no telling what might be inside. All sorts of weird and creepy stuff, I bet." "I'm going to stuff you in one of them if you don't quit that!" Jeff said.
~ Joan Lowery Nixon