#secret

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#folly #keep #others #secret #wisdom

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#discretion #secret #trust #truth #woman

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis. ↗

— Theresa May

#arrive #basis #briefing #daily #daily basis

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#hoarding #humility #information #knowledge #knowledge is power

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering. ↗

— Gwen John

#passionate #reserved #secretive #suffering #violence

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. ↗

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

#arrested development #development #eternal #eternal youth #secret

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#alone #consciousness #day #delicious #entangled

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#always #before #came #course #developed

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ↗

— Henry Cotton

#domination #method #nerves #putting #secret

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#arrangements #furthering #largely #maintaining #make