“Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth”
Source: The Queen of the Damned
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Anne Rice 160
American writer 1941Related quotes
“To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
“If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”
“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Cited as an example of "What Mark Twain Didn't Say" in Mark Twain by Geoffrey C. Ward, et al.
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Variant: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
“When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
“… the only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all…”
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