To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.
Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream.
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my success.
Can I play a southern character? You betcha. Can I do the voice of Tourist Dad and Carnival Barker? Ya betcha. Can I do Fix-It Felix? Ya betcha. But I don't want to just play southern characters, so I hide it; I bury it. I tamp it down like a secret. Like a dirty little secret.
Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
Your genome isn't really secret.
Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.
Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.
There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to drive me there at night and pick me up when it closed. I think he was worried about this routine but never let on. Also, I kept this a secret from my friends, as I don't think it would have been considered the 'coolest' habit.
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
The one thing that always drove me crazy, especially on soaps, was when someone would have something they were hiding, and then six months later, they were still holding onto that secret, and the world has come to a complete, total end as a result of it. If they'd only just confessed!
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
