“How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
Comment prétendons-nous qu'un autre puisse garder notre secret, si nous ne pouvons le garder nous-mêmes?
Maxim 64 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
“Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth”
Anne Rice book The Queen of the Damned
Source: The Queen of the Damned
“Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.”
Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“… the only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all…”
Sara Shepard (1973) Author
Source: Stunning
“To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike.”
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857–1927) American minister
Source: The Gentle Reader (1903), p. 272
“I'm not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!”
Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter
“There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.”
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
Confucius, in Pt. III : The Thing Happens
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: United We Spy
