“I'm not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!”

“Secret: A private matter whispered abroad and never kept to oneself. By naming it a secret, we immediately indicate its presence. If we really wanted to keep secrets, we would not have a name for them.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

“Doff your cap and raise your glasses,
Make a toast to the boring classes
I'm burning your secrets to keep me warm.”

Pete Doherty (1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist

“Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.”

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) English poet and soldier (1893-1918)

“A place to keep all your secrets”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“You can keep it a secret…. But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

“But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

“Truscott: I'm no fool.
Fay: Your secret is safe with me.”

Joe Orton (1933–1967) English playwright and author