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Quotes About Secrets

As a general rule, confidences are made to persons below one socially rather than to those above. Much more readily than we can employ our superiors in secret affairs, we make use of our inferiors, who consequently become
~ Honore de Balzac
ll y a deux histoires : l'histoire officielle, menteuse, puis l'histoire secrète, où sont les véritables causes des événements.
~ Honore de Balzac
Peki ama beni kimi vakit mutlulu?un göbe?inde yakalay?veren o uzun uzun hulyalara dalmalardan ku?kulanmak niye? Bir konu üzerinde benim susu?umdan dolay? senin pek sevimli, sevilen kad?n öfken niye? Yarad?l???mdaki z?tl?klarla, nedenlerini sormadan, oynayamaz m?yd?n? Kalbinde birtak?m s?rlar m? var ki, kendilerini kapatmak için benim s?rlar?ma ihtiyaç duyuyorlar?
~ Honore de Balzac
When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
~ Honore de Balzac
Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Thousand Acres, reveals what can happen
~ Hope Edelman
The Academy represented to the ladies of Lud all that they knew of romance. They remembered the jokes they had laughed at within its walls, the secrets they had exchanged walking up and down its pleached alleys, far more vividly than anything that had afterwards happened to them.
~ Unknown
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
~ Horace
A hotel is like a prison, he thought. The rooms are cells holding secrets and passions. Then something happens, the smallest thing, and the doors fly open. The explosion goes off. Panic. And fragments of truth.
~ Unknown
The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.
~ Howard Nemerov
The inward gates of a bird are always open.It does not know how to shut them.That is the secret of its song,But whether any man's are ajar is doubtful.
~ Hugh MacDiarmid
Il y a, à Venise, trois lieux magiques et secrets : l'un dans la "rue de l'amour des amis", le deuxième près du "pont des merveilles" et le troisième dans le "sentier des marranes", près de San Geremia, dans le vieux ghetto. Quand les Vénitiens - parfois ce sont les Maltais - sont fatigués des autorités, ils vont dans ces lieux secrets et, ouvrant les portes au fond de ces cours, ils s'en vont pour toujours vers des pays merveilleux et vers d'autres histoires...
~ Hugo Pratt
I wanted to show that the fables and mythic tales which the ancients have handed down to us and in which painters and sculptors never cease to find mindless pleasure are the hieroglyphics of a secret, inexhaustible wisdom. I sometimes thought I felt its breath, as though coming from behind a veil.
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.
~ Iain Banks
If she had only known, things might have been different between us, but I could never talk to her about it" [Jimmy about Molly]
~ Unknown
I made up my mind to tell Joe about what was going on at home after the funny business about Molly's letter. As I went to sleep I imagined myself telling Joe even about the the funny marble feeling that came over me from time to time. Then I remembered a lot of the whopping lies I had told Joe about my mother and father.
~ Unknown
This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
~ Ian Rankin
Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.
~ Idries Shah
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
~ Idries Shah
Muchas cosas que son llamadas "secretos" son únicamente cosas que les son negadas a la gente hasta que puedan comprenderlas o efectivamente vivenciarlas.
~ Idries Shah
The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.
~ Idries Shah
Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
~ Idries Shah
Sentencias de los Khajagan Rudbari: Corazón a corazón es un medio esencial para transmitir los secretos del Camino.
~ Idries Shah
Los corazones de los nobles son las tumbas de las confidencias.
~ Idries Shah
No cuentes tus secretos a todo el mundo en esta sede central, Tierra. La hemos examinado bien. No había nadie a quien confiar secretos.
~ Idries Shah