Secrets travel fast in Paris. [ Napoleon ]
Neither hear nor tell secrets. [ Fuller ]
Let thy discontents be thy secrets. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
He spits out secrets like hot custard. [ Proverb ]
Nature has made man's breast no windows
To publish what he does within doors,
Nor what dark secrets there inhabit,
Unless his own rash folly blab it. [ Butler ]
To wind the mighty secrets of the past.
And turn the key of time. [ Henry Kirk White ]
Women as a sex are Sphinxes without secrets. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
If you are wise, and prize your peace of mind,
Believe me true, nor listen to your Jealousy,
Let not that devil which undoes your sex,
That cursed curiosity seduce you
To hunt for needless secrets, which, neglected,
Shall never hurt your quiet, but once known
Shall sit upon your heart, pinch it with pain,
And banish sweet sleep forever from you. [ Rowe ]
Wine neither keeps secrets, nor fulfils promises. [ Proverb ]
Bestow on me what you will, so it be none of your secrets. [ Proverb ]
They wish to know of the family secrets, and so to be feared. [ Juv ]
Secrets make a dungeon of the heart and a jailer of its owner. [ Amer. Proverb ]
If you would know secrets, look for them in grief or pleasure. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
We confide our secrets in friendship, but they escape us in love. [ Du Coeur ]
The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secrets but himself. [ Guizot ]
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. [ Ovid ]
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. [ Crabbe ]
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. It conceals not merely secrets, but blemishes. [ Zachariä ]
Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place. [ Alan Turing ]
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. [ George Herbert ]
In love, a woman is like a lyre that surrenders its secrets only to the hand that knows how to touch its strings. [ Balzac ]
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets. [ Saadi ]
The reason we are so pleased to find out other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
The philosophy of princes is to dive into the secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Oh, but books are such safe company! They keep your secrets well; they never boast that they made your eyes glisten, or your cheek flush, or your heart throb. [ Mrs. S. P. Parton ]
Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life, but no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere. [ Bovee ]
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. [ Whipple ]
Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend; and when thy impartial judgment concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his; he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. [ F. Quarles ]