Quotes About Secrets

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

Men have scars, women mysteries.

I've had secrets come out of my typewriter in invisible ink.

Some secrets are fires so scorching, the only way to quench the burn is to tell someone.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

But I didn't want there to be any silences, out of which raw truths might tumble

Instruct us, Father, gently in the secrets of your love.

It's a world with its own traditions and lore, some of which are hidden within pianos themselves.

Careful what you tell people.

Girls secrets in the hands of boys is like Guns in the hands of gunsels

You can keep your secrete hidden from people but you can't hide the sun with your thump.

The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

My secrets cry aloud.I have no need for tongue.My heart keeps open house,My doors are widely flung.