Quotes about Secrets

"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!"
-Orville Wright

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
-Benjamin Franklin

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
-Saint Jerome

"Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret."
-Diane Ackerman

"What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets."
-Andre Malraux

"Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world."
-Scipione Alberti

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
-Kahlil Gibran

"I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any."
-Aj Mclean

"Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets."
-Albert Einstein

"It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others."
-Lewis Carroll

"The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me."
-Howard Nemerov

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed."
-Ann Landers

"Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love."
-Spanish Proverb

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
-Colin Powell

"I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture."
-Christian Dior

"The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them."
-Ayn Rand

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
-Helen Keller

"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day."
-Jean de La Fontaine

"Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery - the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets - is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together."
-Alan Watts

"Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal."
-J. Russell Lynes

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men."
-Captain J. A. Hadfield

"But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable."
-E. M. Forster

"Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak."
-John Lecarre

"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

"This case was a complete loser for the press. It exposed this traffic in secrets. And whenever the press is claiming rights that are an exception from the rest of the public, then I think it works against the press."
-Jay Rosen

"At the same time Big Brother is watching you, you can watch Big Brother more effectively, ... [Big Brother] can't keep secrets from us."
-Jaron Lanier

"Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say."
-Sir Henry Taylor