secrets

1.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.

- Gelman, Daniel C.

2.

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

- Anaximenes

3.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

- O'Neill, Eugene

4.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

5.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

- Dix, Dorothy

6.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

- James, Henry

7.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

- Taylor, Jeremy

8.

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

- Jose Raul Bernardo

9.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

- Cohen, Leonard

10.

A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all mens.

- Proverb, Spanish

11.

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

- Andre Malraux

12.

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

13.

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

- Winchell, Walter

14.

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

- Cory Doctorow

15.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

- E. M. Forster

17.

The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.

- Charles Fleischer

18.

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

19.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

- Diogenes