Quotes About Secrets

She had had such a strong feeling that she needed to talk to someone who would tell her some secret that would make everything alright. She had been unable to think who it was.

They looked around with drained faces and drank less than their friends did, barely wetting their lips so as to keep their secrets.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

A missing lover, a severed hand, but a body never discovered… An heiress and a bloodied gown…

Vereker's secret… the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

The fields are fair in autumn yet, and the sun's still shining there, but we bow our heads and we brood and fret, because of the masks we wear, Or we nod and smile the social while, and we say we're doing well, But we break our herts! For the things we must not tell.

The Jordans never spoke of the exam, not until their son, Dickie, was twelve years old.

Each has its lesson for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Each of us has his skeletons in his soul, as the English say.

Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all

Ka?dy ma w duszy swoje skeletons.

Till now I have always, thank God, been my children's friend and had their full confidence," said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who imagine that their children have no secrets from them.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Brevman conosce una ragazza di nome Shell che si è fatta fare i buchi alle orecchie per mettersi lunghi orecchini di filigrana. I fiori si sono infettati e adesso lei ha una piccola cicatrice su ciascun lobo. Lui le ha scoperte sotto i capelli di lei. (…) I bambini mostrano le cicatrici come medaglie. Gli amanti le usano come segreti da svelare. Una cicatrice è quello che succede quando la parola si fa carne.

Only the dead know the truth.

If compliance will get them what they want, they will feign a cooperative spirit. If they think lying is necessary, they will say whatever needs to be said. If it seems profitable to keep secrets or to reveal only partial truths, they will do that.

We would never let anyone else see when we were wounded, but we'd show each other. We both had things to hide from our families, for example.

Never tell the truth about an amateur show.

Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret.