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Quotes About Secrets

It was a trivial secret, but one I would remember as vividly as my feeling that while some people are haunted by the dead, others are haunted by the living.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another's.
~ Unknown
People rarely discuss the things that trouble them most.
~ Unknown
The good thing about a secret is that women don't know what a secret is.
~ Unknown
Soames was a beautiful and striking woman, tall and lithe and, from the photographs Ive seen of her, feline. Saul's photographs of her over the years catch her in all her complex dimensions: playful, erotic, contemplative, ironic, and eccentric by turns. She was by all accounts charismatic, and was profoundly curious and interested in people. Friends, both men and women, often confided their deepest secrets to her.
~ Vince Aletti
Rumor flies.
~ Virgil
the twenty-five hundred acres that comprised Cromwell Plantation. She loved the land passionately. Carrie knew all its moods—all of its secrets and hidden places.
~ Unknown
Mais les gens de cette génération avaient été élevés au rythme de la Voix dans la Maison des secrets : un monde dans lequel le téléphone pouvait sonner à n'importe quel moment pour te donner l'ordre de virer la moitié de tes collègues. Eliminer son prochain est la règle d'or de jeux dont on les a gavés au biberon. Comment leur demander, aujourd'hui, de trouver ça morbide? (pages 11-12)
~ Virginie Despentes
Así que estaban los Kerner, llenos de odio, entrelazados en secreto por el espasmo sexual, y estaban mis padres, que se llamaba el uno al otro pero cuyo lecho campaba castamente en campo abierto. Abajo la casa un desastre, el marido estaba exiliado en el salón, a las posar una soñadora medio lunática; arriba todo estaba como una patena el marido en el centro de todo y la esposa, vehemente y obstinada.
~ Vivian Gornick
Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.
~ W. H. Auden
The numerals of Pythagoras," says Porphyry, who lived about 300 A.D, "were hieroglyphic symbols, by means whereof he explained all ideas concerning the nature of things," and the same method of explaining the secrets of nature is once again being insisted upon in the new revelation of the "Secret Doctrine," by H. P. Blavatsky.
~ Unknown
When I was growing up, my mother taught me the language of birds; and when I got married, I used to be listening to their conversation; and I would be laughing; and my wife would be asking what was the reason of my laughing, but I did not like to tell her
~ W.B. Yeats
A critter reveals his true self at midnight.
~ Unknown
I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
~ Herbert Hoover
I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.
~ Jessica Chastain
P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.
~ Joanne Fluke
Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.
~ Edward Sapir
Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn
~ Stephen Hawking
A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.
~ John Updike
Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax
~ Baltasar Gracian
This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
~ Walt Whitman
Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.
~ Ellen J. Barrier
Stay cool, hang loose, admit nothing.
~ Cara Delevingne