Quotes About Secrets

I'm terrible at keeping secrets.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

I'm sorry I took so long," she said. "Your mother wanted me to look at something." "A new hat." "How do you know?" "When you have spent a lifetime unraveling the secrets of the human soul, my dear," he began in a cracked, old man's voice. "Oh, poof! You saw the box!" "Right.

Noir: all those beautiful sentences telling you the most terrible things.

What is it?" I asked. "'The King in Yellow.'" I was dumfounded. Who had placed it there? How came it in my rooms? I had long ago decided that I should never open that book, and nothing on earth could have persuaded me to buy it. Fearful lest curiosity might tempt me to open it, I had never even looked at it in book-stores.

No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

Il prato sente una stanchezza felice, – disse il bambino, con il tono di chi rivela un segreto, – come quando si corre molto nel gioco.

Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister.' And that's all she has to say.

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

Oh, the things we discover and the things we learn, much too late. Worse are the secrets that are not secrets, the sorrows we live with but do not admit to one another.

some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?

There is always power in holding a secret.

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be very chary of revealing your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.

All men value their own secrets far above those of others.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your own secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.

what I have become. And so I begin again, and again, but always find that I am writing of my own beginnings rather than the beginnings of this land. I do not even know to whom I try to explain myself. My life has been a web of secrets, secrets that even now are unsafe to share. Shall I set them all down on fine paper, only to create from them flame and ash? Perhaps. My memories reach back to when I was six years old. Before that, there is nothing, only a blank gulf

Chade's boy cried.

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours. Always deal from a position of power. These were Shrewd's maxims. And Verity abided by them.

All that is of dragons belongs only to dragons.

Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.

I told myself that I clenched my lips shut because it was the nobler thing to do, to keep these secrets to myself was better than to let the truth destroy her. Did I lie to myself, then? Don't we all?