Secrets Quotes

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

Chinese saying

Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.

Antiphanes

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

French proverb

It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time.

Oliver Franks

I know that's a secret for it's whispered everywhere.

William Congreve

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

Goethe

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

Henry Taylor

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.

Isak Dinesen

Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult.

William Butler Yeats

If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.

Alexander Smith

Where secrecy reigns carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.

Daniel C. Gelman

Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Bible

Even in your thought do not curse the king nor in your bedchamber curse the rich for a bird of the air will carry your voice or some winged creature tell the matter.

Bible

The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we been permitted to walk together Sunday afternoons under the wide sky.

Susan Vreeland

...how time packs new years over the old ones but how those old years are still in there, like the earliest, tightest rings centering a tree, the most hidden, enclosed in darkness and shielded from weather. But then a saw screams in and the tree topples and the circles are stricken by the sun and the sap glistens and the stump is laid open for the world to see.

Tom Franklin

There are thousands of codes in the Torah which are decoded by the Talmud.

H.W. Charles

When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.

Tess Gerritsen

If you tell anyone what I just told you, I’ll call the Mob. I know some of them, you know.” “Bullshit.” I shrugged. “Believe what you want.” Finch eyed me suspiciously, and then smiled. “You are officially the coolest person I know.” “That’s sad, Finch. You should get out more,” I said, stopping at the cafeteria entrance.

Jamie McGuire

We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny pieces will work their way to the surface for the world to see.

Stephanie Lawton

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

Mason Cooley

This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.

T. Scott McLeod

A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

Sue Miller

No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.

Shannon A. Thompson

Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.

Augusta Scattergood

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

damali ayo

What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered...

Jocelyn Murray

My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just snapped, “How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Solomon now? Are you my friend or are you my enemy, Zach? Or, wait, let me guess, you can’t tell me.

Ally Carter

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know.""I know," Klause said."I know you know," Violet said

Lemony Snicket

They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.

Anthony Horowitz

I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, or medium things, like if you cut an onion under running water your eyes won't sting, and if you wash your fingers afterwards with lemon-juice they won't stink.I used to want to know all the secrets, and every time I learned one, I felt like I'd taken--a step. On a journey. To a place. A destination: to be the kind of person who knew all this stuff, the way everyone around me seemed to know all this stuff. I thought that once I knew enough secrets, I'd be like them.

Cory Doctorow

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Bryant McGill

Many more villagers, who have seen an elephant for the first time in their lives, give absurd exaggerations regarding his size, weight, and height. One of them describes him as ‘a fundament!’. Another, elaborating, alludes to the term ‘firmament,’ because of the elephant’s hugeness. He felt as though the sky was obliterated from his vision. The last to be interviewed by the local TV station swears that he sensed the world lean forward as the elephant came closer and tilt backwards as the beast walked away.This large mammal ambles purposefully. He pays no heed to the crowded silence following him in stealthy consciousness. One of the villagers, a woman often suspected of dabbling in witchcraft, talks of her inspired theory: that this was no elephant, more like a human on a holy mission of avenging justice. Two other witnesses, neither having had any contact with the woman, speak in substantiation of the woman’s claims, giving as evidence the observation that the elephant turned around when someone said something in Somali. Several villagers will not comment, afraid of a fitting retribution should they do so.

Nuruddin Farah

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

Sol Stein

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What are we going to do, Ayden?" she whispered, glaring up at me."I don't know," I confessed. "But how about we burn that bridge when we get there?""I thought it was 'cross' that bridge?"I lightly poked her in the eye and she laughed. "No. We're burning bridges. Crossing is so overrated." I smiled and touched the corner of her eyes, captivated by the iridescent blues."I think I like the sound of that," she whispered."Yeah?""Yeah.

Nadège Richards

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

Richard Peck

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

Danielle Steel

Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.

Suzanne Palmieri

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

Téa Obreht

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable...

Sue Monk Kidd

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Adam Phillips

What happens in the dark should not be brought to light.

Habeeb Akande

It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you're avoiding confronting it directly is that it's something you don't want to know.

Tim Kreider

Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are?” By his words you’d think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I’m off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he’d be like, oh no please don’t do that. Inreality, he’d have to kill me.

L.H. Cosway

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.

Christa Wolf

Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers actually raped their children, yet survivors of such abuses spoke out and eventually began to be listened to and believed. Ritual abuse survivors, when they try to speak out about their experiences, face denial and disbelief from society and often fear for their lives from the abusers.

Laurie Matthew

That’s literally one of those things where if I tell you I have to kill you. A witch’s wand is a powerful tool and could be disastrous if it fell into the wrong hands.

Amanda Kelly

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.

Thomas Boswell

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.

Lemony Snicket

No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.

Lia Habel

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

E. Lockhart

Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change... sometimes, so do people.

Gwen Ro

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

Edgar Watson Howe

...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...

John Geddes

I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.

Hannah Harrington

Keeping secrets isn't my specialty.

Hannah Harrington

Secrets have an unfortunate way of spreading far beyond those they were intended for.

Haley Fisher

God, she looked like an angel from this angle as she sat in the sunlight that streamed in from a nearby open window. I was hoping with all my heart that what I was about to tell her, wouldn’t make this angel fall.

Angela Richardson

You lying sneak.""All this time pretending to be a wolfblood's best friend, then spying on us.""You don't understand. I did it to protect ya. When you secret gets out, i'll have the evidence to prove that you're not evil

Debbie Moon

His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.

Kristen Iversen

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