Top 100 Keep A Secret Quotes
#1. In 1905, Freud wrote: "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him from every pore.
Pamela Meyer
#2. two people could keep a secret, as long as one of them was dead.
Kyle West
#3. It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
Magic Johnson
#5. Life is a journey where people travel through each other's memories. If you want to keep a secret well, keep it from yourself
S.E. Sever
#6. Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret ...
Louisa May Alcott
#7. Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
Oswald Mosley
#8. The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret
that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#9. But if she loved me through it, couldn't someone else? Couldn't someone else keep a secret or ten?
C.D. Reiss
#10. I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.
Jason Mraz
#11. And as for you, Paul, I assured him that you could keep a secret for up to six days without apoplexy.
Arthur C. Clarke
#12. Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?"
Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter?"
"No," Miles conceded.
"Well, then," she said, as if that settled the matter.
Richard Russo
#13. Three can keep a secret if the other two of them are dead.
Kami Garcia
#14. I'm on page 65 of 368 of Sleepless: I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.
Charlie Huston
#15. three men can keep a secret, but only if two of them are dead.
Joanne Fluke
#16. Never forget a man who holds a secret holds power. A Chinese proverb says: "If women want to keep a secret, one of them must die." What a splendid prospect, I thought! So far I have not heard one single encouraging word about this job.
John Eppler
#17. I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
Ben Macintyre
#18. The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
Julian Assange
#19. It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
Dan Brown
#20. Mark Twain said, two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
Kaje Harper
#21. The only way to keep a secret in Washington, if you are the one person who knows it, is never to tell another living soul.
Maxine Cheshire
#23. If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.
Benjamin Franklin
#24. The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
Sydney J. Harris
#25. It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
Catherynne M Valente
#26. Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.
Lemony Snicket
#27. Grandpa Portman really knew how to keep a secret, didn't he?""Are you kidding? The man was an emotional Fort Knox.
Ransom Riggs
#28. A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret and ought not to be trusted: but when he finds himself with her his mind loses its faith in that bit of knowledge
C.S. Lewis
#29. Our people believe in God, don't they? And they also do secretive acts, don't they? How can you keep a secret from God [the absolute supreme self within us] that knows all your actions? If you want to realize God, then you cannot do secret acts.
Dada Bhagwan
#30. Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. You keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the
Dean Koontz
#34. Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.
G. Gordon Liddy
#35. I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
Audrey Niffenegger
#36. That two can keep a secret if one of them is dead." She
Alyson Noel
#37. Three men can keep a secret only once two of them are at the bottom of the river.
Django Wexler
#38. I have to ask, sir ... Why does it have to be done like this?"
Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?"
"Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots."
"Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know.
Terry Pratchett
#39. If you want to keep a secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Benjamin Franklin
#41. I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind.
Agatha Christie
#42. In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
Stuart Symington
#43. It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
Abraham Lincoln
#44. For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.
George Orwell
#45. One person can keep a secret, but not two.
Ernest Cline
#46. What we do we keep a secret. We are not to be seen or heard by the rest of the world.
Mark Simo
#47. You can keep a secret, only for so much time unfortunately. But of course, you can make that time, seem like forever.
Angelo Tsanatelis
#48. They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
Austin O'Malley
#49. It's main storytelling hell because it's really hard to keep a secret. It's really hard to not communicate. But I think that's what's great about this world is it's a world where he is off the grid, and for me, it's a way to step back.
Brian Wayne Peterson
#50. Can you keep a secret?"
"Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain't nothing going to get out.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#52. He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Sigmund Freud
#53. To agree to keep a secret is to assume a burden
Sam Harris
#54. You can talk to me, you know. I'd never give away your secrets."
"What's that saying about secrets?" she said lightly. "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Elle Kennedy
#55. You keep a secret inside of you and it feels like a wall that separates you from others.
Frank Warren
#56. If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
David Nicholls
#57. ...it was an old saying: three could keep a secret if but two of them lay in their graves...
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#58. If you want to keep a secret, never share it.
Seneca.
#59. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - BEN FRANKLIN, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK T
Neil Gaiman
#60. If I tell you something Leah, can you keep a secret?" Conor pressed a callused finger across a petroglyph of a deer like a blind man etching memory into his brain.
Laura Treacy Bentley
#62. That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
Glen Duncan
#63. How can you ask me to keep a secret... when you can't keep it yourself?
Maya Berger
#65. I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.
Katherine Heigl
#66. You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.
Deb Caletti
#67. The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.
Frank Herbert
#68. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he is going to run for governor on our program last night. My staff didn't know, Arnold's staff didn't know, I was shocked as everyone else. If he doesn't get elected governor, maybe he should work for the CIA. I mean, he can keep a secret better than they can.
Jay Leno
#69. When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
Gore Vidal
#70. Only two can keep a secret if on of them is dead.
Sara Shepard
#71. No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.
Jed Rubenfeld
#72. Hitler's ability to keep a secret was unparalleled.
Heinz Linge
#73. I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business.
Demetri Martin
#74. Can you keep a secret? Say no and I'll have to kill you.
Stephen King
#75. The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.
Bruce Lee
#76. The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep
Edgar Watson Howe
#77. What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Chilon Of Sparta
#78. There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel.
Italo Calvino
#79. No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo
#80. It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body ...
Julia Hoban
#81. If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
George Orwell
#82. Guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the war, except to keep our parade sites and our storage centers secret and to get out of bodies every time there's an air raid or the enemy fires a rocket or something.
Kurt Vonnegut
#83. The dumplings had the flavor of paradise, and the broth spread through my veins like a secret that's fun to keep.
Lemony Snicket
#84. A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra's Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.
Laurie Faria Stolarz
#85. My tricks are, I get Botox in my forehead-I just have my doctor do a little shot there. if you overdo, it looks bad. I believe in just a little bit. It allows you to keep that mobility in your face. It's a great little secret.
Jenny McCarthy
#86. The secret to a happy parternship? Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.
Kevin Bacon
#87. She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently been able to keep this a secret from people.
Terry Pratchett
#88. Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.
Wayne Allyn Root
#89. "I believe I'll keep that one to myself, luv. If I told you all my secrets, there would be no more mystery in our relationship."
"I'm not a big fan of mysteries."
That roguish smile I once hated curls his lips and curls my insides. "Rubbish. You adore them."
A.G. Howard
#90. On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
Frederick Forsyth
#91. We had a secret knowledge that demons couldn't fathom. They saw love as a weakness, but they were wrong. Love would keep us going, love was our strength.
Wendy Higgins
#92. You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.
Janet McTeer
#93. I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
Walter Winchell
#94. Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.
Lauren Graham
#95. They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo - their kind. To limbo.
Philip Wylie
#96. A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
David Eddings
#97. Boia is trying to force Simon to talk. Nowak is trying to keep the exhibit a secret.
Ian Caldwell
#98. For sure they didn't share sips from the same cup, give each other cheer-up hugs, or swear to keep real important things secret, which are all things that are done by a real 100 percent for real friend.
Charise Mericle Harper
#99. I'm the dark secret that he can't keep hidden - his crossed fingers - his hold-my-breath-to-keep-from-feeling. But I make him feel everything.
Amy A. Bartol
#100. The Glasshobs built it to keep an eye on the stars, who have a tendency to run off on adventures and forget about how much we down-below folks need to navigate and cast horoscopes and meet lovers on balconies.
Catherynne M Valente
