My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
Dan Brown

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
David Byrne

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
Ivan Turgenev

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray

The secret of my success is my hairspray.
Richard Gere

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.
Maureen O'Hara

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean de la Bruyere

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.
Joan Miro

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
Jacques Lacan

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
Stephen Ambrose

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
Sacha Guitry

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
Jose Saramago

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Karl Jaspers

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
Georges Bataille

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.
Bo Bennett