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Quotes About Secrets

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
~ Peter Straub
To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.
~ Sam Smith
But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.
~ Tennessee Williams
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
~ William H. Macy
It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.
~ Winston Churchill
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
~ John Steinbeck
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
~ Cormac McCarthy
Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
~ Loren Eiseley
Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
~ Norm MacDonald
But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.
~ Ilya Kaminsky
You know, Mad Men is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.
~ Alison Brie
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
~ Alice Hoffman
When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.
~ Anne Michaels
How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.
~ Bill Vaughan
Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.
~ Bob Dylan
Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those." "Jesus?" "No, Bruce Springsteen.
~ Cecelia Ahern
There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.
~ Charles Portis
Dead men tell no tales, Mary.
~ Daphne du Maurier
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
~ George R. R. Martin
I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.
~ Giovanna Cau
There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.
~ Lord Chesterfield
"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.
~ Patricia Briggs
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
~ Isak Dinesen
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
~ James Russell Lowell