Quotes About Secrets

“Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.”
French Proverb
“If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.”
Alexander Smith
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.”
Kenneth Tynan
“To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
Samuel Johnson
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695, French poet)
“Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.”
Proverb
“The secret to humor is surprise.”
Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
“Secrets are made to be found out with time.”
Charles Sanford
“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 (Austrian neurologist and Founder of psychoanalysis 1856-1939)
“All women are natural born espionage agents.”
Eddy Cantor (American singer, 1892-1964)
“The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.”
Joan Collins (English Actress starred in series “Dynasty”, born 1933)