People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.
Sara Paretsky

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
Sigourney Weaver

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
Charles de Montesquieu

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
Raymond Chandler

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.
William Trogdon

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.
Timothy West

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise Pascal

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Karl A. Menninger

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
Charlotte Gainsbourg