Emily Giffin Quotes

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

When it comes to relationships, it's nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else's. That's not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, 'Vote for me - I'm perfect. I'll be this for you and never do anything wrong.'

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

I've never cheated on a woman.

Do not betray the people.