Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle
...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.
Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.
Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.
Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.
It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
Everyone has secrets. Especially me.
It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.
