Quotes About Secrets

unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or

He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out.

I don't like innuendo in these deafening English whispers.

inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild

Not seeing,' said Gatsby. 'No, we couldn't meet. But both of us loved each other all that time, old sport, and you didn't know. I used to laugh sometimes—'but there was no laughter in his eyes, 'to think that you didn't know.

I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are our anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead. And all our promises, like all our hopes, move us through life with the power of an ocean liner pushing through the sea.

Fault. In English or in Cantonese, that was the word we were all afraid of. I held it like a seed in my mouth. As kids, the three of us loved to suck on dried plums. Long after the sour and salty fruit dissolved, the seed stayed sweet, the true secret. Now I was afraid my secret guilt would start to grow sweet, and I would never want to spit it out.

And as friends get closer, they start to tell each other everything.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret. —Jean de La Fontaine, French poet (1621–1695)

But everything I've heard tells me that Matt has something going on. He kept

Porque todo ha de saberse y lo que no se sabe lo imagina la malicia de los hombres.

We secretly hate paradise.

Quando ti vidi, già da molto prima io ti avevo amato. Nell'incontrarti io ti ho ritrovato. ... Hai forse un segreto? Confidalo, che io so tutto di te, se me lo dirai con l'anima. Potrai dirmelo con parole difficili, e io capirò solo perché ti amo. Se il tuo segreto è triste, con te piangerò finché non lo dimenticherai. E se non puoi dirlo, dimmi che mi ami, e io capirò senza volere il tuo segreto.

Siempre he sentido una repugnancia casi física por las cosas secretas, las intrigas, la diplomacia, las sociedades secretas, el ocultismo. Sobre todo siempre me han molestado estas dos últimas cosas: la pretensión que tienen ciertos hombres de saber, mediante un entendimiento con dioses o maestros o Demiurgos –entre ellos, excluidos todos nosotros–, los grandes secretos que son los fundamentos del mundo.

Revelaré secretos? No, porque los que tengo no son revelables, son secretos de verdad. ¿Cotillerías? Soy el último que se entera de todas y por tanto el menos adecuado para propalarlas.

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

I can remember being fascinated by what people really thought about each other and what they were really doing to each other behind people's backs.

I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

For some weird reason, people have a fascination with Laura Palmer.

'The Bottoms' or 'A Fine Dark Line' are two of my favorites.

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.