Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
I'm good at keeping secrets.
I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.