The Secret Quotes

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.

Kundalini Yoga will dawn on you the secret of how to be Healthy, Happy and Holy.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.

"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

I'm secretly afraid of clowns. But it's not a secret now...dang.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

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.

I suppose it's really satisfying to play someone with secrets. It's really satisfying to decide how and when those things are going to start being revealed, and how subtle to be.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

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.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Obviously, as secretary of state, I had some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after bin Laden. So I am very committed to taking classified information seriously.

It's like [Donald's Trump] plan to defeat ISIS. He says it's a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.

And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

Question all as to their ways and learn the secrets that they hold

Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

The secret of great style is to feel good in what you wear

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

What we know of others is our personal secret.