Secrets Quotes

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Samuel Johnson

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

John Milton

with Michael Kube McDowell

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Joseph Conrad

Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!

Charles Dickens

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

W. H. Auden

It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quite out of reach, never, never to come back. It was bright to look at; and when the tiny woman showed it to the Princess, she was proud of it with all her heart, as a great, great, treasure. When the Princess had considered it a little while, she said to the tiny woman, And you keep watch over this, every day? And she cast down her eyes, and whispered, Yes. Then the Princess said, Remind me why. To which the other replied, that no one so good and so kind had ever passed that way, and that was why in the beginning. She said, too, that nobody missed it, that nobody was the worse for it, that Some one had gone on to those who were expecting him-- 'Some one was a man then?' interposed Maggy. Little Dorrit timidly said yes, she believed so; and resumed:'-- Had gone on to those who were expecting him, and that this remembrance was stolen or kept back from nobody. The Princess made answer, Ah! But when the cottager died it would be discovered there. The tiny woman told her No; when that time came, it would sink quietly into her own grave, and would never be found.

Charles Dickens

I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.

Sydney Smith

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

Cardinal De Richelieu

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Elbert Hubbard

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.with Michael Kube-McDowell

Arthur C. Clarke, The Trigger

To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

Anon.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren

The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

Euripides, Ion

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

George Washington Carver

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.

Thomas Powers

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Jean de La Fontaine

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

Andre Breton

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Robert Frost