Quotes About Secrets

Have you ever heard of Remnants? - Skulduggery

She's actually a friend of yours... Myosotis Terra. And you wouldn't know, actually. Or to be precise, you wouldn't remember. - Skulduggery (Myosotis Terra)

He said he was Lord Vile. - Skulduggery

I know where there's some blood," Lily said.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

Even subjects that are known are known only to a few

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

But rather than looking forward to reading that account, I felt as if I were stealing a private diary that had been locked by his death.

All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a border where you knew things no one else knew.

But he didn't tell her and she didn't tell him, and if it guessed their secrets, it kept silent. He

I hope to find Area X in Area X.

A name was a dangerous luxury here.

As the Latin poet Horace once noted, the intellect of the mind knows nothing. Instead, people use it to make common sense of the world and have myths that explain things in everyday terms. Still, the secrets of the universe continue to transcend the quotidian.

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

A sister I'm not allowed to see, a headmaster with questionable intentions, and a duck that wants to kill me. Good doesn't feel like the right way to put it.

I told him of the queen's refusal to see me, and"- he hesitated, his cheeks coloring slightly- "about the beautiful maiden I met in the castle gardens." "You did?" she asked, unsure why she was so taken with the fact that he'd mentioned her. "Yes," Henri smiled shyly. "Oh, brother," she heard Grumpy mumble.

Actually, beauty secrets of fairy godmother would make a good post