Quotes
Quotes about Secrets
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans l'amour.]
But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
