Top 54 Quotes About Confidences
#1. I learned long ago that silence invites all manner of confidences.
Kate Morton
#2. Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.
Louis Kronenberger
#3. Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
Honore De Balzac
#4. Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences.
Georgette Heyer
#5. I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass
Rose Tremain
#6. Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
Rand Paul
#7. Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.
Lucy Larcom
#8. God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.
Charles Brent
#9. Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Thornton Wilder
#10. Mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently
F Scott Fitzgerald
#12. A rector lives in a web of pretty secrets, and confidences and warnings, and the wiser he is the less he will regard them. He
E. M. Forster
#13. It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater.
Muriel Spark
#14. Even people who are entirely strange and indifferent to one another will exchange confidences if they live together for a while, and a certain intimacy is bound to develop.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#15. If you chance to fall into any kind of dispute with a friend, do not despise him for this reason, nor betray his confidences. Prov.
Unknown
#16. She disliked confidences, for they might lead to self-knowledge and to that king of terrors - Light.
E. M. Forster
#18. Looking at a man as though he was something the horse left behind isn't the way to elicit confidences.
Loretta Chase
#19. Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same, speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly out of place and yet so perfectly at home.
Charles Dickens
#20. For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by
the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from
the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond
those misty hills that bound the golden road.
L.M. Montgomery
#21. After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend
Page Smith
#22. Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. "What is the most beautiful place you've ever seen?"
Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. "Any place," he said huskily, "where you are.
Judith McNaught
#24. Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration, little appreciations, little confidences, ... they are all that are needed to keep the friendship sweet.
Hugh Black
#25. It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.
Benoite Groult
#26. Empty him of his confidence by highlighting his failures so that therefore his head will be far more easily swelled with adulations and self-confidences.
Anonymous
#27. Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
Roger Daltrey
#28. But all that talk. All those confidences. He shuddered to think about it. At the time, though, he didn't know any better, and he was filled the gleeful lurching and teeth-chattering panic of early and undiagnosed love.
Jennifer DuBois
#29. Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.
Stefan Zweig
#30. Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#31. A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.
Marvin J. Ashton
#32. Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.
Anne Roiphe
#33. Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don't find under most other circumstances.
A.B. Shepherd
#34. As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.
Tiffany Madison
#35. The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.
Idries Shah
#36. From now on when a boy starts telling me about his lost loves I am going to run in the opposite direction screaming loudly ... Somehow I bring out such confidences, and I'm pretty sick of hearing about Bobbe or Dorothy or P.K. or Liota. God damn them all.
Sylvia Plath
#37. When fear is the disease, faith and confidences are the medicine.
Debasish Mridha
#38. I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart.
Gustave Flaubert
#39. The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.
Stella Benson
#40. Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you
Paul Simon
#41. Unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or
F Scott Fitzgerald
#42. I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
J.G. Ballard
#43. She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
J.K. Rowling
#45. Their friendship, remembered from the battle school days, gradually disappeared. It was to each other that they became close; it was with each other that they exchanged confidences.
Orson Scott Card
#46. Conversation over coffee tended to be candid and invited confidences.
Joanne Fluke
#47. We are bound by the secrets we share.
Zoe Heller
#48. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
Sylvia Plath
#49. Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not your secret to tell.
Stephenie Meyer
#50. Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.
Donna Jo Napoli
#51. What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.
Jodi Picoult
#53. It was never a good idea to confide in people. They always remembered, and when they came up to you in the street, years later, you could see the information was still firmly attached to your face and present in the way they said your name and the pressure of their hand clasping yours.
Helen Simonson
#54. A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
Lauren Oliver
