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Quotes About Secrets

Imagine a wife and a mistress sharing the same toothbrush forever and ever, never knowing.
~ Lorrie Moore
her by night, somebody gets killed, see?
~ Louis L'Amour
In a world of many mysteries there are a few doors left slightly ajar for us to see. He who passes one of those doors may deny man knowledge precious to us.
~ Louis L'Amour
The urge to communicate is even stronger than the sex drive," Trapp said. "Why do you think people gossip so much? Why can't we keep secrets? Why have we invented the printing press, the telephone, the Internet? It's so ideas can grow and reproduce. Our bodies, our brains, are just machines that ideas use for a while, then toss aside when they wear out.
~ Louis Sachar
Wait a second. I don't have to tell you. You already know. Todd was sent to your school.
~ Louis Sachar
Allison," said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned a very important secret today, and I don't want you to tell any of the other children, not even Rondi." "What was that?" asked Allison. She didn't even know she had learned a secret. She loved secrets. "You learned that children are really smarter than their teachers," said Mrs. Jewls. "Oh, that's no secret," said Allison. "Everybody knows that.
~ Louis Sachar
I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…
~ Louisa May Alcott
Lotty would be privately dispatched with a batch of failures, which were to be concealed from all eyes in the convenient stomachs of the little Hummels.
~ Louisa May Alcott
There's mischief going on, and I insist upon knowing what it is.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Because, what? You won't tell? Never! Well, I have a bad trick
~ Louisa May Alcott
Clearly, the U.S. government condoned something that, in modern phraseology, could be termed industrial espionage. Building upon this precedent, Hamilton put the full authority of the Treasury behind the piracy of British trade secrets.
~ Ron Chernow
He made a cryptic statement to Hewitt that entered into Rockefeller folklore: "I have ways of making money you know nothing about.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller asserted that he was less afraid of exposing misbehavior by talking to the press than of inadvertently spilling trade secrets.
~ Ron Chernow
I pressed him no further, and never found out where his father lived.
~ Ron Chernow
So people surprise us. They can lie to each other, as my brother had done to me, and as I had lied to him that September evening at Panther Creek, and now it appeared those two lies could only lead to one imponderable truth.
~ Ron Rash
Medieval Muslim society...labeled as intoxicated anyone "whose orderly speech is confused and who spills his hidden secret...
~ Ronald K. Siegel
Los monstruos se ocultan en el lóbrego vientre del silencio doméstico.
~ Rosa Montero
Un mundo íntimo recargado y secreto en el que coincidían. Eso era el amor, en realidad: tener a alguien con quien poder compartir tus rarezas ~ , Lágrimas en la lluvia.
~ Rosa Montero
Los monstruos se ocultan en el lóbrego vientre del silencio doméstico - 'La buena suerte' de Rosa Montero
~ Rosa Montero
She finished the teacake and took a salmon-paste sandwich, and pretended to herself that Mummy and Jess did not belong to her, and that she was on her own, rattling across Europe in the Orient Express, with state secrets in her Chinese wicker basket, and all manner of exciting adventures in the offing.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
A Woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets by Rose- Titanic
~ Rose
She'd told Gustav never to cry. But it seemed that this rule didn't apply to her, because there were times, late at night, when Gustav would creep out of his room to find Emilie weeping over the pages of the Matzlingerzeitung. At these moments, her breath often smelled of aniseed and she would be clutching a glass clouded with yellow liquid, and Gustav felt afraid of these things - of her aniseed breath and the dirty glass and his mother's tears.
~ Rose Tremain
Ho notato questo negli esseri umani; l'essere a conoscenza di un segreto li fa sorridere. E' il sorriso del potere.
~ Rose Tremain
Deep, dark secrets always hurt to share. That's why we keep them in the deep dark.
~ Roxanne St. Claire