Secrets Quotes

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

You've had your share of secrets and I'm tired of being the last to know

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

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

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

Nature tells every secret once.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

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

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

There are secrets in all families.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.