Quotes About Secrets

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

When the High King was killed - first poisoned, several times, then shot with pistols, then his head cut off, then burned in the great palace fire ... no one really liked to talk about it ...

Heather Graham

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. —Roald Dahl

Well, it's no secret that the best thing about a secret is secretly telling someone your secret. —SpongeBob

Oh the things that hide secretly in our children, lying in wait, doing untold damage, yearning to be free. Alarming us beyond all measure.

You can tell anytime,' Penn said, 'but once people know, they can never unknow.

But some secrets are secrets, whereas some secrets are lies.

You have to tell. It can't be a secret. Secrets make everyone alone.

He could say it,' Roo explained, and his mother was surprised to hear his voice, 'and it wouldn't matter. For just a minute, it was like we didn't all have to be carrying around this crazy secret.' Rosie and Penn found themselves looking at Ben as if he were the one who could tell them whether all this was true or just boyish bullshittery. 'Secrets are heavy things,' he said, absolving neither his brothers nor his parents.

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

I use the furniture of espionage to amuse the reader, to make the reader listen to me, because most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.

I do lend my books, but I have to be a bit selective because my marginalia are so incriminating." --Alison Bechdel

about superspies and

Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

Girls without Pasts don't keep guns in their dressing rooms.

Later when we became friends she told me that being a viper was lucrative.

Secrets are the stones That sink the boat Take them out, look at them Throw them out and float