Top 100 Kept Secret Quotes

#1. Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husband. These are places she goes to renew her virginity.

Glenn Haybittle

Kept Secret Quotes #4582
#2. This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.

Bill Murray

Kept Secret Quotes #15726
#3. I have never had a secret hero in my mind but I have kept a lot of mentors in my mind that are heroes. Gandhi, Jesus, Moses, Martin Luther King they were all secret heroes in my mind because they stood for what they wanted, what they believed in.

John Assaraf

Kept Secret Quotes #17383
#4. Hard information on the quantity of bogus art sold is difficult to come by, in part because fraud, when discovered by dealers and auction houses, is usually kept secret to boost public confidence in the art market.

Peter Landesman

Kept Secret Quotes #25037
#5. God, if only I were smart enough to know I'm worth more than being kept secret

Anthony Paull

Kept Secret Quotes #26592
#6. The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.

Frederick Lenz

Kept Secret Quotes #42782
#7. Those of us who fought the crypto wars, as we call them, thought we had won them in the 1990s. What the Snowden documents have shown us is that instead of dropping the notion of getting backdoor government access, the NSA and FBI just kept doing it in secret.

Bruce Schneier

Kept Secret Quotes #50508
#8. It was as if some manual was handed out one day, a manual of instructions about complicated social situations. But I wasn't there the day they handed it out. The worst part was, nobody even told me it was distributed. It was like, they kept it secret from me.

John J. Siefring

Kept Secret Quotes #63253
#9. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #70762
#10. I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

Daniel Ellsberg

Kept Secret Quotes #81180
#11. There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kept Secret Quotes #83453
#12. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #85213
#13. How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Steve Harvey

Kept Secret Quotes #86667
#14. These rooms are decorated in two days. It's all kept secret. The neighbors spend the night in each other's home. They don't see their finished room until the end of the second day. They have no say what happens in their own home.

Paige Davis

Kept Secret Quotes #105476
#15. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #106627
#16. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #165496
#17. The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

Kept Secret Quotes #171810
#18. You needed the secret kept for you more than I needed the truth to come out.

Rebecca Serle

Kept Secret Quotes #173611
#19. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #177072
#20. The secret to selling is to "sell the secret". Your sales presentation should make your product sound like the "best kept secret" in your entire industry.

Troy Clark

Kept Secret Quotes #185032
#21. Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.

Janny Wurts

Kept Secret Quotes #188265
#22. I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Kept Secret Quotes #193805
#23. Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

Julian Assange

Kept Secret Quotes #204968
#24. Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.

Robert Half

Kept Secret Quotes #213098
#25. There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

Juan Campodonico

Kept Secret Quotes #233387
#26. A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ...

Leslie Ford

Kept Secret Quotes #265410
#27. When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.

Joe Biden

Kept Secret Quotes #281085
#28. I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

Anne Lamott

Kept Secret Quotes #285307
#29. The greatest loves are those kept in secret.

Barbara Haworth-Attard

Kept Secret Quotes #293475
#30. Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

Todd Park

Kept Secret Quotes #303912
#31. In a city where people are almost as obsessed with food as they are with status, perhaps the best-kept secret of the dining scene is that the finest cuisine arguably isn't found at the Michelin-starred restaurants in five-star hotels but rather at private dining clubs.

Kevin Kwan

Kept Secret Quotes #320105
#32. His [(Rumpelstiltskin)] feeling that his name, which is his identity, must be kept secret, or else he'll be revealed to the world as the hunchbacked, shriveled, ridiculous creature he knows himself to be. And if that happens, he'll disappear.

Joan Gould

Kept Secret Quotes #320855
#33. I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

Beth Ditto

Kept Secret Quotes #324894
#34. It felt like something that was meant to be kept secret, a new seed that might grow to something extraordinary if it wasn't forced to bloom too soon.

Leigh Bardugo

Kept Secret Quotes #328550
#35. My best-kept secret is that I didn't reject normality. Normality rejected me.

Maggie Young

Kept Secret Quotes #338594
#36. There were so many things we left unsaid. Depending on how you look at it, whether you think it was worth saying it out loud, or better kept inside.

Diyar Harraz

Kept Secret Quotes #361027
#37. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #363368
#38. A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.

Yasunari Kawabata

Kept Secret Quotes #372329
#39. Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems.
Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Toba Beta

Kept Secret Quotes #381921
#40. 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

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#41. Then two identical Cadillac Fleetwoods (special Secret Service cars flown in from the US) and the President sitting in one of them. Which one was kept secret. Or perhaps he was sitting in both, Harry thought. One for Jekyll and one for Hyde.

Jo Nesbo

Kept Secret Quotes #398431
#42. At the best the body is only the organ and instrument of the soul, and that it must be kept under and made subservient to those lofty purposes which the soul conceives in its secret place and executes in life's arena.

F.B. Meyer

Kept Secret Quotes #410111
#43. The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

Ramsey Clark

Kept Secret Quotes #436209
#44. People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more.

Craig Venter

Kept Secret Quotes #468685
#45. Both men knew the only thing more valuable than a favor well done was a secret well kept. This had the potential to be both.

Pearl Cleage

Kept Secret Quotes #469998
#46. They kept their secret from the knowledge of others, not as a shameful guilt, but as a thing that was immaculately theirs, beyond anyone's right of debate or appraisal.

Ayn Rand

Kept Secret Quotes #482473
#47. Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

William Proxmire

Kept Secret Quotes #484261
#48. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #488957
#49. How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon? [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Kept Secret Quotes #501532
#50. Don't be so timid! When you were a child, didn't you speak out the truth that the oldest ones kept secret? Well, you were right then. You must find the time of innocence in yourself again, because that was also the time of courage.

Amin Maalouf

Kept Secret Quotes #502541
#51. Though she'd never been ashamed of what she'd done, she'd kept it secret because she'd understood that others wouldn't view it the same way she did.

Kresley Cole

Kept Secret Quotes #524306
#52. Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

Marshall McLuhan

Kept Secret Quotes #524499
#53. At heart he was a secret Quaker and football was pure violence. The coach was always telling him to "hit them harder." The coach wanted him to put opposing players "out of commission." He kept it to himself but wondered what the point of the "game" was if your intention was to hurt people badly.

Jim Harrison

Kept Secret Quotes #534702
#54. Oh, Barley. You know me so well. Better than any cat ever has. But there is a secret that I have kept from you without meaning to: I have always been a warrior. I have a loyalty to these cats, and I must fight alongside them, whatever happens.

Erin Hunter

Kept Secret Quotes #557756
#55. No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

Nina LaCour

Kept Secret Quotes #573575
#56. For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.
The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret ...
It is a word ... the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.

Dean Koontz

Kept Secret Quotes #586138
#57. Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

Adam Smith

Kept Secret Quotes #588032
#58. Alaric waited. It's a good enough trick. Say nothing and men feel compelled to fill the silence, even if it's with things they would rather have kept secret. It's a good enough trick, but I know it and I said nothing.

Mark Lawrence

Kept Secret Quotes #589809
#59. The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

Dan Farmer

Kept Secret Quotes #590391
#60. Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets,

Aliko Dangote

Kept Secret Quotes #599669
#61. The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.

Honore De Balzac

Kept Secret Quotes #607708
#62. What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret; are addictions. Those that are openly visible cannot be called addiction.

Dada Bhagwan

Kept Secret Quotes #614891
#63. Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

Kevin Powers

Kept Secret Quotes #642239
#64. Everyone knows that only wishes that are kept secret will ever come true.

Lauren Oliver

Kept Secret Quotes #643606
#65. [Prince Stefan's] family was of Eastern European descent, with some real royalty thrown in via a connection to Vlad the Impaler - who hung from a branch that Ian wouldn't kept secret had the family tree been growing in his yard.

Suzanne Brockmann

Kept Secret Quotes #645683
#66. Part of the fascination that photography holds is its ability to unlock secrets kept even from ourselves. Like dreams, the photograph can uncork a heady bouquet of recognition which can escape into the cognitive world.

Jack Welpott

Kept Secret Quotes #670634
#67. That is why we could not leave here, when we died. She kept us, and she fed on us, until now we've nothing left of ourselves, only snakeskins and spider husks. Find our secret hearts, young mistress.

Neil Gaiman

Kept Secret Quotes #693493
#68. The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

Harry Browne

Kept Secret Quotes #697364
#69. Sex is like God, really. I know they're both important, but if I think about them too much my head hurts." -The Best Kept Secret

Wendi Nunnery

Kept Secret Quotes #704316
#70. Now maybe that Arizona incident will make sense to you. I had to get out of that apartment, because if I had stayed in that situation I would have switched, and then all of you would've known the secret that I've kept for so, so long.

Marlene Steinberg

Kept Secret Quotes #736519
#71. For present purposes he's shortened the name. He's only Snowman. He's kept the abominable to himself, his own secret hair shirt.

Margaret Atwood

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#72. The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Henry Bessemer

Kept Secret Quotes #754254
#73. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #757376
#74. With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Sara Gruen

Kept Secret Quotes #769936
#75. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #817775
#76. The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.

Bernie Sanders

Kept Secret Quotes #869523
#77. I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.

Colin Hanks

Kept Secret Quotes #893342
#78. It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

Jimmy Reid

Kept Secret Quotes #911475
#79. For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

John Dryden

Kept Secret Quotes #917873
#80. So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.

Angie Dickinson

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#81. The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.

Omar Khayyam

Kept Secret Quotes #934613
#82. A pact must be kept and a secret must never be revealed ...
Pact of witches

Pet Torres

Kept Secret Quotes #943679
#83. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #990514
#84. I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

Oscar Wilde

Kept Secret Quotes #1012366
#85. It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.

Catherynne M Valente

Kept Secret Quotes #1027028
#86. All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

Jean De La Bruyere

Kept Secret Quotes #1037813
#87. I've fought for more than three years. I was just thirteen when I started. I'm sixteen now, though that fact, like so many facts, has been deliberately obscured in the secret accounts we've kept.
I'm a sixteen-year-old kid named Jake Berenson, and I am the leader of the Animorphs.

Katherine Applegate

Kept Secret Quotes #1053796
#88. 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

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

Tracy Chevalier

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#90. The place had filled him with a sense of wisdom hovering just out of reach, of unspeakable grace prepared and waiting just around the corner, but he'd walked himself weak down its endless blue streets and all the people who knew how to live had kept their tantalizing secret to themselves.

Richard Yates

Kept Secret Quotes #1112953
#91. There are planets so far away from ours that no scientist will ever guess that they exits, let alone know the stories of their civilizations, their beginnings and ends. They're not being kept secret from us, but they're secret all the same.

John Darnielle

Kept Secret Quotes #1123532
#92. Course I didn't want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.

Rita Mae Brown

Kept Secret Quotes #1126069
#93. Time is the best kept secret of the rich.

Jim Rohn

Kept Secret Quotes #1133096
#94. 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

Kept Secret Quotes #1138424
#95. I wish we would stop sending signals out into space to find other "intelligent" life. I'd prefer earth remained the Best Kept Little Secret, thank you very much.

Ava Bradley

Kept Secret Quotes #1150536
#96. There's one relationship in your life - in everyone's life - that has been kept a secret. You don't know when it began, and yet you depend upon it for everything. If this relationship ever ended, the world would disappear in a puff of smoke. This is your relationship to reality. A

Deepak Chopra

Kept Secret Quotes #1168202
#97. I woke with a dreaded pain of hunger this morning, but it was not for food. You knew about hat. It was our most important secret, and because you knew, it kept me alive. (29)

Sarah Ferguson

Kept Secret Quotes #1190300
#98. Even his Englishness was a well-kept secret.

John Le Carre

Kept Secret Quotes #1206799
#99. Her father didn't know the half of her problems. Nobody did. Nobody ever would. She couldn't let anyone find out just how crazy she was, the secret she kept. She would fight her way out of that dark hole somehow. She had to, or it would swallow her for good.

Dana Marton

Kept Secret Quotes #1208647
#100. I kept it a secret, which is the only way to maintain ownership of something.

Meg Howrey

Kept Secret Quotes #1217859

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