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Secrets Quotes

“The things that happen to people we will never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets – “

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 5. Miss Maudie to Scout. She tries to explain how the reclusive Boo Radley feels after being secluded in the house for so long. Boo was locked up in his childhood home by his abusive father, who hypocritically in public was religious and “a foot-washing Baptist.” Boo is viewed as a strange and frightening figure by the children.

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed at the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 2. From early in the novel, Victor Frankenstein shows that he is not like others. He is driven to discover the secrets of heaven and earth, which ultimately leads to his downfall.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

– Halle Berry

One of my most important ‘Secrets of Adulthood’: Outer order contributes to inner calm.

– Gretchen Rubin

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

– Harry Houdini

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

– George Bernard Shaw

Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Act 3.

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

– Harriet Ann Jacobs

That’s the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

– Ian McDiarmid

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

– Hannah Kent

One of my ‘Secrets of Adulthood’ is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

– Gretchen Rubin

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

– Hank Stram

I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.

– Isabel Allende

We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal’s secret.

– Jane Velez-Mitchell

I’ve made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I’m no longer interested in that subject – which is a wonderful relief.

– Ira Sachs

I’ve always been really interested in secrets – how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

– Jill Soloway

Apprentice is the beginner – the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

– Josef Albers

I read so much about men who aren’t what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.

– Jane Green

The soul shall mightily rule in all hidden secrets: but it must not let in the devil.

– Jakob Bohme

There are no secrets.

– John McAfee

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

– John Updike

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

– John Updike

I’m not good at keeping secrets.

– Judy Blume

I do tend to be an analyzer. I’m an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

– Cynthia Nixon

It’s very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That’s my rule.

– Irina Shayk

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

With ‘Urban Secrets,’ I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

– Alan Cumming

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

– Andy Rooney

I’m really bad at keeping secrets.

– Alfie Allen

You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.

– Apollonius of Tyana

If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.

– Barton Gellman

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