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Quotes About Secrets

No one has told Jon's wife that he and I were once in love, I suppose? Holly shook her head. I'd rather they didn't, then. of course not, my dear. I'll see to it. The child's nice, I think. Nice, said Fleur, but not important.
~ Galsworthy John
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
~ Alexander Smith
It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
~ Munshi Premchand
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.
~ Lisa Edelstein
Witches are a cold breed who keep unto themselves.
~ Agnes Moorehead
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
~ Deborah Harkness
I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.
~ John Sexton
Married men don't get their own apartments 'to escape' their lives with their wives.
~ Kenya Moore
Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.
~ Gillian Jacobs
One night, my father woke me up because he'd come home with a horse. Two days later, I asked my mother where it was, and she said it had run away. She'd sold it.
~ Roisin Murphy
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
~ Gloria Stuart
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
~ Tom Robbins
The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.
~ Shirley Knight
I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
~ Nancy Werlin
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
~ Rupert Brooke
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
~ Alice Walker
We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.
~ Patti Stanger
For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.
~ Annie Jacobsen
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'
~ Alice Hoffman
I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.
~ Susie Orbach