Secrets Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

~ Richard Peck

...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

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

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

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

~ Pierre Curie

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

~ Chuck Tanner