Quotes: Secrets

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they – and as taciturn.

If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch’s brew.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren’t credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

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.

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.