Best Kept Secrets Quotes

#1. One of the best kept secrets is that everyone loves sex." Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

#2. Secretly incredible people keep what they do one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know, the God of the universe, already knows.

Bob Goff

#3. Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

Jill Biden

#4. One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

John Naisbitt

#5. (One of the best-kept secrets of "country life" is that people accidentally crush their own pets a lot.) The

Tina Fey

#6. The lifelong health problems of John F. Kennedy constitute one of the best-kept secrets of recent U.S. history - no surprise, because if the extent of those problems had been revealed while he was alive, his presidential ambitions would likely have been dashed.

Robert Dallek

#7. My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

Kinky Friedman

#8. The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

Henri Nouwen

#9. One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

Christopher McDougall

#10. Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise.

Raymond Bonner

#11. Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

Frank Zappa

#12. Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets,

Aliko Dangote

#13. The afterlife is one of death's best kept secrets. . . and I was living proof of that.

Ireland Gill

#14. In truth, this was a bad thing that Yan Chang had done, telling me my mother's story. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth. After

Amy Tan

#15. The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

Harry Browne

#16. He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#17. I realised I really didn't know what I was doing and I felt her trace drowning in the middle of the cars and the people, in the middle of the streets and far away, in the secrets she so jealously kept.
I felt it. We were ever so close, ever so far.

Emiliano Campuzano

#18. They say the eyes are the windows to our soul; glass gateways that do little to conceal our true self. Yet, for me, they're also the narrators of our heart and give insight to our well-kept secrets... secrets I wanted to remain hidden.

K.M. Golland

#19. For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

John Dryden

#20. Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share with those you love and Trust
Ned Stark

George R R Martin

#21. While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn to me. They would talk to me for hours at my parents' parties. Strange to find yourself at seven, dressed in pagamas with feet, listening to adults tell you their deepest secrets.

Frederick Lenz

#22. The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

John W. Gardner

#23. Evil deeds and lies - kept hidden - ruin lives. Secrets give evil the power to grow.

Nikki Sex

#24. With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Sara Gruen

#25. I have to ask, sir ... Why does it have to be done like this?"
Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?"
"Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots."
"Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know.

Terry Pratchett

#26. Although the secrets governments kept were generally about money wasted on dumbass ideas while social services held bake sales.

Tanya Huff

#27. The basis of the gothic are secrets that are kept combined with appearances that deceive.

Stephen King

#28. They talk like people, he thought, who have kept the huddled-up secrets of their guilts and inadequacies to themselves for a long time, only to discover that these things, when verbalized, were only life-sized after all.

Stephen King

#29. He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.

Veronica Roth

#30. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

Frank Ocean

#32. Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

Liam Neeson

#33. The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Denis Waitley

#34. I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

Nicholas Sparks

#35. Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played.

Maggie Stiefvater

#36. It seemed to Ellie that you could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret - by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.

Jennifer E. Smith

#37. He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Kim Edwards

#38. All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Adam Smith

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

George Bernard Shaw

#40. As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw

#41. There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?

Ilona Andrews

#42. Lately
I've been dreaming about you
About us
Sharing our secrets
Talking, even if we argued
Kept talking, till we slept
Maybe I woke up
On the wrong side of bed
Maybe I thought about you
Just a little too much

Irum Zahra

#43. Time is the best kept secret of the rich.

Jim Rohn

#44. For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.

Wendy Beck

#45. I'm of the opinion that secrets kept in life should be honored in death, that nothing changes simply because you're not there to defend yourself.

Dave Eggers

#46. These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed.
But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets.
The one who saved me ... and the one who cursed me.

Rick Yancey

#47. It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

Tracy Chevalier

#48. You've always kept my secrets. I'll always keep yours

Kiera Cass

#49. Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

Liane Moriarty

#50. Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

Todd Park

#51. I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

Anne Lamott

#52. A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ...

Leslie Ford

#53. Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

Julian Assange

#54. Secrets, however long they are kept, usually still manage to be brought to light. The best you can hope for is that you'll be in control of when a secret gets out, not if it does."

-Melody in CHIMERA-

Vaun Murphrey

#55. The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

#56. Secrets have power," Widget begins. "And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well.

Erin Morgenstern

#57. Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never-admitted secrets all boil down to the same three words: I am afraid.

Maggie Stiefvater

#58. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

Sylvia Plath

#59. He is a prince and, worst of all, the queen's son. I didn't want to trust him before this very reason, for the secrets he kept hidden. Or maybe this is what he was hiding all along...his own heart.

Victoria Aveyard

#60. Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people kept fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained

Jeanette Winterson

#61. We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

Kim Edwards

#62. I kept secrets from you. I let you believe a lie. I am an impious son. But I made my choice, as C(aesar) did, and once the Rubicon is crossed, there can be no turning back (Meto, Caesar's scribe, to his father Gordianus the Finder)

Steven Saylor

#63. You wanted to belong. The problem was, no matter how well you kept your secret, the very fact of having one was enough to separate you from everyone else.

Lisa Kleypas

#64. Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

Billy Crystal

#65. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

Amy Tan

#66. No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.

Malcolm Lowry

#67. Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own - the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home.

Graeme Sparkes

#68. Nobody really knows her
Except the chosen few
Her secrets are kept hidden
Behind that sun-kissed hue.
If I reach out to touch her
She'll just run away
My Forever and Always
Will have to wait another day.

Simone Elkeles

#69. Odara narrowed her gaze at Reaghan. You think I enjoy keeping secrets? It kills the soul slowly and surely every day those secrets are kept.

Donna Grant

#70. Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

Adam Smith

#71. Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#72. Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

Marshall McLuhan

#73. What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.

Paul Monette

#74. If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.

Jon Bon Jovi

#75. some secrets kept themselves, out of a failure to stand up to the competing rumors. She

Barbara Kingsolver

#76. In those days secrets were well kept.

Stuart Symington

#77. People were, essentially, the secrets they kept.

Penny Reid

#78. And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real life. On the Net was OK. There he was no more than electrons and words. In real life, standing on her doorstep, he was still fucking attractive. And he knew her secrets just as she knew all of his.

Stieg Larsson

#79. Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

Ellen Hopkins

#80. The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

Stephen King

#81. How many people had helped rescue and protect her, had kept her secrets? How many had risked their lives because they believed hers was worth more?

Marissa Meyer

#82. The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.

Tom Peters