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Quotes About Secretly

The flame that not even beauty can nourish was springing up, and though his words were querulous his heart began to glow secretly. Presently it burst into speech. "You understand me, you know what I feel. Oh, if others resembled you!
~ E.M. Forster
There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.
~ Timothy West
I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.
~ Edward Hirsch
And here face downward in the sunTo feel how swift how secretlyThe shadow of the night comes on.
~ Archibald MacLeish
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
~ Victoria Pendleton
I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.
~ Elizabeth Banks
Q: What genres do you especially enjoy reading? And which do you avoid? A: I love reading anything about gigantic animate blobs of molten iron who secretly long to be concert pianists. It's not a particularly well-populated genre, but in particular I'd mention, "Grog, Who Loved Chopin," as well as the somewhat derivative "Clom, Big Fan of Mozart.
~ George Saunders
Princess Diana holds in the threshold for a second longer, checks over her shoulder that her Prince is out of earshot and whispers softly in my ear, 'Sorry to leave early, though secretly I'm quite glad. It's Spitting Image tonight, and I want to watch it in my room. They hate it of course. I absolutely adore it.
~ Stephen Fry
Punishments hereafter are suffer'd by one's self; and the world takes no cognizance whether this God has reveng'd 'em or not, 'tis done so secretly, and deferr'd so long.
~ behn aphra ii
Secretly, he began to smuggle the family library out of the country: about two-thirds of the fifty thousand volumes would be saved.
~ Ben Macintyre
There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.
~ Bob Beckel
The absence of a political hierarchy in the nation-state and the victory of equality rendered 'society secretly more hierarchical as it became outwardly more democratic.
~ Hannah Arendt
To a drone I'd have a tiny heat signature, like a squirrel or something. A secretly very, very deadly squirrel.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I just want to build the set for the show and be secretly in love with Ryan and not have to fight demons.
~ Michelle Knudsen
Tell the bewitched soul that sin is a viper that will certainly kill when it is not killed, that sin often kills secretly, insensibly, eternally, yet the bewitched soul cannot, nor will not, cease from sin.
~ Thomas Brooks
Women could protest from now till piss flowed uphill, but the truth was, there wasn't one didn't secretly love a killer. And
~ Thomas Pynchon
Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
The Democrats cannot say that we stand with immigrants if that secretly means we only stand with immigrants in odd-numbered years or when southern Democrats complain.
~ Luis Gutierrez
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
~ Tom Robbins
The light is shining in the darkness, but the darkness does not comprehend it. To a soul in such a condition, peace will come as soon as it turns to Our Lady and imitates her. In her the Word of God chose to be silent for the season measured by God. She, too, was silent; in her the light of the world shone in darkness. To-day, in many souls, Christ asks that He may grow secretly, that He may be the light shining in the darkness.
~ Caryll Houselander
The darkness brought a strange kind of release, and you wished secretly in your heart that darkness would descend on the whole earth so that you could get a chance to see how much energy there was stored in your little self. You could get a chance to leave the cage. You would be free.
~ George Lamming
Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.
~ Poppy Montgomery
Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked? Jace: I was following you. Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me?
~ Cassandra Clare
I think I look a little like a pumpkin," whispered September, secretly delighted. "I'm all green and orange.
~ Catherynne M. Valente