Secret Quotes

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

The secret of art is love.

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.