I Have A Secret To Tell You Quotes

#1. We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars,
watching Cassiopeia mount her throne
and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South.
I would say, "I have a secret to tell you."
And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly,
you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.

Diane Ackerman

#2. For indeed she was a Princess - My princess. And for her, I would do anything, give anything, tell the darkest hurt from of old and reveal secret desires and passions.

Daniel Maldonado

#3. I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the next, smiling the whole time. I went over there one day and begged her to tell me her secret. It's simple, she said, right after breakfast you light up a joint.

Gabrielle Burton

#4. Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

Ben Okri

#5. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

E.W. Howe

#6. You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.

Frederick Lenz

#7. We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

Stephen L. Carter

#8. Have you ever dreamt about doing something totally foolish, something so absurd that perhaps you were afraid to tell anyone except possibly those closest to you? I harbored such a secret for most of my adult life - I secretly wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail [A.T.] from Georgia to Maine.

Dennis R. Blanchard

#9. There's a very secret plan. And it's a plan that nobody's going to tell you, 'Well, we want to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A. because we want X, Y, and Z.' They'll never ever say that. But I'm kind of surprised they went after Christmas because it's such an emotional issue.

Bill O'Reilly

#10. I'll tell you a secret. I'm not responsible for whether my students care or don't care. That care has to come from them - not me." "Where does that leave you?" "No matter what, Ari, my job is to care." "Even when they don't?" "Even when they don't." "No matter what?" "No matter what.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#11. Spring has a secret to tell us: life is for beauty and life is for joy.

Debasish Mridha

#12. It's not easy. It never is. That is the secret our parents fail to tell us, out of kindness and love, but it's a secret we need to know. Everything that begins, ends. Everything beautiful disappears.

Alice Hoffman

#13. And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]

Allen Ginsberg

#15. She looked over at him, her eyes warm. "Your face has a story to tell."
Mouth quirking, Roan growled, "It's a top-secret face, Darlin'.

Lindsay McKenna

#16. What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way; yes, it's what they learned from failing.

Ronald Reagan

#17. If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

Jill Paton Walsh

#18. And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#19. I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

Ayelet Waldman

#20. You don't look like a monster."
"I'll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.

Leigh Bardugo

#21. I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.

Maurice Nicoll

#22. I want to tell you a secret that will see you through all the trials that life can offer."

"Have courage and be kind!

Cinderella

#23. Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.

Rembrandt

#24. And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.

Jean Cocteau

#25. I'll tell you a secret about being happy, Tom. Sometimes you just have to pretend at it until it becomes real.

Stephanie Dray

#26. No, I don't have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don't know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.

Karen Russell

#27. Let me tell you a little secret: There are no bad actors. There are none. You have to find the right role. I never give up on people. For God's sake, look at me.

Geneva Carr

#28. Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?"
Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter?"
"No," Miles conceded.
"Well, then," she said, as if that settled the matter.

Richard Russo

#29. I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

George Carlin

#30. My one main secret I did right after my pageants days, is I only wash my hair once a week. I tell everyone, 'You have to stop washing your hair so much!'

Joyce Giraud

#31. To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

Euripides

#32. I'm going to tell you a secret. A secret I've never told anybody. I, Ignazio Vitale, have always been afraid of the dark. If you tell anyone that, I'll kill you.

J.M. Darhower

#33. If I was into girls, I'd do you," I tell him honestly. He leans forward conspiratorially. "Psst, I'll let you in on a secret Fred," he glances sheepishly from side to side. "I actually have a cock. Don't tell anyone, it would ruin my reputation. But feel free to do me any time you want.

L. H. Cosway

#34. I'm happy to get up in the morning. I'll tell you a little secret: I still want to work in Hollywood. However, I get really excited about getting on a plane, flying to a city, and talking to a group of people about finding the gifts they already have inside.

Kim Coles

#35. Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are? By his words you'd think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I'm off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he'd be like, oh no please don't do that. In
reality, he'd have to kill me.

L. H. Cosway

#36. Am I mad?"
"I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers! But I'll tell you a secret ... all of the best people are!

Lewis Carroll

#37. Tucker, I want to tell you a secret." She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest, " You got to figt it with your heart.

Charles Martin

#38. I don't know what my secret is. Tell me about yours, teach me about the secret of each one of us.

Clarice Lispector

#39. If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.

Kabir

#40. Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden
a secret language.

Robert Altman

#41. Let me tell you a secret, a tremendous and wonderful secret. Let me share with you something so valuable that any schoolboy would gladly trade his most treasured procession to find out what I shall tell you.

Maxwell Grantly

#42. Tell them it's a secret. Tell them they don't need to know.

Tove Jansson

#43. She took them off when she saw Georgie.Hello, Victoria, did you come to tell me a secret?

Rainbow Rowell

#44. People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

Walt Disney

#45. But I'll tell you secret. Something even a lot of grownups haven't figured out yet,' Miss Taylor leaned forward and whispered 'When we face our fears, we take their power away.

Bobby Nelson

#46. I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

Warren Buffett

#47. Should I tell her that I can't sleep, I can't eat and I miss talkin' to her? Or just sittin' with her? That I miss the secret way she smiles at me? That I constantly think about the way she smells, the taste of her mouth, the feel of her skin, and the sound of her laughter?

Lorelei James

#48. It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#49. Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.

Igor Babailov

#50. What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Howard Thurman

#51. Don't tell Mummy,' he said, giving me a slight shake. 'This is our secret, Antoinette, do you hear me?

Toni Maguire

#52. And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell ... You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#53. And sometimes," she added, in slightly hushed tones, like she was letting me in on a secret, "if you don't feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won't be able to tell the difference." (Bronwyn)

Morgan Matson

#54. Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn't his secret to tell. In every other way, he'd been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.

Claudia Gray

#55. This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

Sophie Kinsella

#56. This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you. ~ Amy

Beth Revis

#57. Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.
Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.

Rumi

#58. Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

Kate Morton

#59. Secrets affect you more than you'd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone'll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn't it the secret who's actually using you?

David Mitchell

#60. Figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

Mabel Seeley

#61. Foolish woman, will holding it secret in your heart make it any less true? If
you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered?

George R R Martin

#62. Someone owns trillions and keeps simple. I would.
Someone reads all minds and looks average. I would.
Someone knows the future and doesn't tell. I would.

Toba Beta

#63. Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)

Rainbow Rowell

#64. I thought creators were supposed to tell their younglings they were special. I didn't know mine meant something more when she told me. I could've never known what she'd seen in the water. My future was a secret she kept bound up inside her.

K.P. Ambroziak

#65. Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#66. Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret
there, I have seen is slavery.

Mary Renault

#67. One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Oscar Wilde

#68. Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.

Lisa Kleypas