Secret Quotes
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
Adolf Loos
As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.
Just Fontaine
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Tom Peters
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Edgar Quinet
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
Daniel Ellsberg
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
Jane Rule
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Benjamin Haydon
Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.
Donna Tartt
Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them.
Rich Galen
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx
Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.
Richard Chamberlain
That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
Paul Ryan
The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.
Henry Cotton
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
Walter Winchell
You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.
Peter Singer
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Julian Assange