I Will Tell You A Secret Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn't die. That is when I began to believe.

God was real, and he hated us.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden

#3. Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so.
You're entirely Bonkers.
But I will tell you a secret,
All the best people are.

Lewis Carroll

#4. 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

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

Leigh Bardugo

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Lisa Kleypas

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Allen Ginsberg

#20. 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

#21. I'll tell you a secret about the men in this world. They like young pretty girls, but when pretty teams up with smart and resourceful, it's more than an elixir, it's nearly a dad-blamed aphrodisiac.

Pamela Morsi

#22. Tell me which places lie along your routes, and I will tell you who you are. What if, by connecting all of these points on a map, we discover something special about ourselves? What if we see the silhouette of fate, the secret sign that marks each of us?

Nadezhda Belenkaya

#23. P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

Joanne Fluke

#24. Come closer, and I will tell you.
But he forgot. He kissed her, and became lost in the exquisite sensation of his skin becoming too tight for his body. He murmured other things instead. A secret, a want, a promise. A story, in its own way.

Marie Rutkoski

#25. 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

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

Maurice Nicoll

#27. 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

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

Cecily Von Ziegesar

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

Toni Maguire

#30. 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

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

Igor Babailov

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Rainbow Rowell

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

Tove Jansson

#39. Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change ... sometimes, so do people.

Gwen Ro

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

Kabir

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

Clarice Lispector

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

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

Sophie Kinsella

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Mabel Seeley