Copies Quote by Renata Adler

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if…

— Thomas Powers

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never…

— Josh Billings

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

— Fausto Cercignani

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not…

— Seymour Hersh

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the…

— George F. Kennan

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

— Ernest Cline

Secrets are always never as well kept as people think they are. More often than not when you reveal something, especially the bigger it…

— James Scott

There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.

— Frank Warren

“Secrets staying secret is the norm. Officials only get riled up when the opposite happens—when secrets are leaked, published, disclosed.”

— Jason Fagone

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important…

— Erin Morgenstern