Quotes with secrets

  • Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
  • A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
  • Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Quotes 1 till 20 of 46.

1 2 3 Next 
  • Seneca Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
    - +
    +2
  • Ellen Barkin Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
    Ellen Barkin
    American actress and producer (1954 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
    +1
  • Ben Hecht A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
    - +
     0
  • Leonard Cohen Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Dorothy Dix Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
    Dorothy Dix
    American newspaper columnist (1861 - 1951)
    - +
     0
  • Ali ibn Abi Talib Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Dylan Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse.
    When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose.
    You're invisible now. You've got no secrets to conceal.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • John Dryden He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • David Malouf I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives.
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alice Hoffman I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alice Hoffman I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
    Alice Hoffman
     
    - +
     0
  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
    - +
     0
  • David Copperfield It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • Albert J. Nock Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
    - +
     0
  • Brendon Urie 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.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
    - +
     0
  • Don Delillo Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
    - +
     0
1 2 3 Next 
All secrets famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com

Popular subjects

Popular authors