Who Among You ...

[excelsior-1]

... can keep a secret?

[mrs_overall]

I can. In fact I pride myself on it.

[boxtops]

I certainly can. Tell me a secret and it stays with me.

[EcclesCake]

If I couldn't my previous career would have been very short lived.

[Psybbo]

You can tell us, excel, we won't say a word

[shoota]

Sorry, not telling you.....

[Sparkles62]

I'm very proud of that quality also Mrs O. Not a gossip. People tell me things, it doesn't go any further.

[excelsior-1]

he who hath a secret, must keep it secret, that he hath a secret to keep

[Maydup]

I'll be absolutely honest and say that I find it very difficult. It depends what the secret is of course, but I usually feel the need to tell someone the secret even if its told to someone who doesn't know the person at all.

[quinie]

I can,though it can be difficult sometimes.

[FredPuli43]

De la Rochefoucauld drily noted, as an aphorism , that the person who asks you to keep a secret obviously can't keep a secret himself !

I dislike it. I'm inclined to the view that, if the person telling me wants it secret they shouldn't have told me. Nearly always there is no value in my being told; the speaker merely wants to tell somebody. On the rare occasions when it is both essential that I know and dangerous if anyone beyond me does, I do but don't like the stress.That's in private; professionally I am so enured to privilege and privacy in matters that it's easy. It should be, because I am not personally involved with the people

[Iluvspikey]

I've got secrets people have told me when I was a kid and I've never told a soul

[AlwaysConfused]

I can keep a secret, although I feel bursting at the seams to tell someone! It's hard, but I do it!

[Eve]

Yes and I find I get told far more because of it.

[friedgreentomato]

well you see it depends on if this 'secret' affects other people and will harm if I keep it secret.