Top 100 Secretly Quotes
#1. I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.
Elizabeth Banks
#2. We cried openly over the ones we lost. We wept secretly for our smartphones, our cars, our microwave ovens, and the Internet.
Rick Yancey
#3. Secretly he was pleased to own a horse with the sand to eat a raw cowboy.
Annie Proulx
#4. When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.
Ron Wyden
#5. Don't say that poetry, my friend, is beautiful
or powerful
for there is no powerful or beautiful poetry
There is poetry that strikes you, secretly
with the diseases of writing and schizophrenia, and you rave
and your self leaves you for another
Mahmoud Darwish
#6. He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
Juvenal
#7. She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing what she had long suspected she could do, and she could not deny that it was gratifying in the extreme.
Kate DiCamillo
#8. I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!
Iwan Rheon
#9. Part of the prejudice thing is that the victim has to be somebody weaker than you in numbers, but somebody you secretly admire or fear.
Robert Silverberg
#10. A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.
Paul Downs Colaizzo
#11. The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation ... kitsch
Theodor Adorno
#12. A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.
Nathan Farragut Twining
#13. By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
Will Ferrell
#14. Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!
Michael Chabon
#15. But that's what makes it so exciting. Will she kiss me or will she kill me - I think every man secretly wants to play that game
Rosamund Hodge
#16. The treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work.
Albrecht Durer
#17. I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it.
Truth Devour
#18. Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.
Robert Jordan
#19. I secretly want to shave my head.
Zendaya
#20. Don't worry," she says. "Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald.
Naomi Wood
#21. She thought secretly that there is no more dangerous item in the world than a pretty young woman on the loose. Luckily, the older woman thought, when we are girls we don't know that we are like sticks of dynamite or like fireworks in a box too close to a fire.
Doris Lessing
#22. It seemed that it was changing subtly, cooking itself down under the pressure of time, silent invisible flakes settling to form a mulch, a crystalline essence of discarded technology, flowering secretly in the Sprawl's waste places.
William Gibson
#23. Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors - or worse, release me.
Ron Santo
#24. Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Jack Kerouac
#25. Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
Chris Hadfield
#26. Just so we're clear, I dont' secretly want to have sex with either of my parents.
Me either. I worked through that in college just to make sure. It was touch and go for a while, especially when my father kept asking me if he looked pretty.
Alex Adams
#28. A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.
H.L. Mencken
#29. Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?
Victoria Laurie
#30. The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.
Lu Xun
#31. Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?
David Abram
#32. No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
Rita Mae Brown
#33. It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay.
Katherine Mansfield
#34. How although they'd of course been warned that their lives would be misery for years, how they had all of them, to a one, assumed they'd be the exception (and now all, to a one, secretly thought they still would be).
Hanya Yanagihara
#35. The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, like
I had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope.
Jose Emilio Pacheco
#36. What if the girls on the squad realize I swoon over Peter Parker or that I secretly wish our uniforms included a cape
Leah Rae Miller
#37. He alone knew the USSR was populated by many total enemies of socialism, egotists and vipers of the future world, and he secretly consoled himself by the thought that one day soon he would exterminate the whole mass of them, leaving alive only proletarian infants and pure orphans.
Andrei Platonov
#38. I was never one to like power, but in the back of everyone's mind, you secretly wouldn't mind having some at one point or another. To be able to make things the way you wanted them would be an amazing thing.
Holly Hood
#39. Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien
#40. Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
William Cecil
#41. I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
John Le Carre
#42. In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.
Marvin Ammori
#43. I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.
Jamie Zeppa
#44. I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.
William Faulkner
#45. Maybe I could ... secretly fix a trailer onto the car when Luke ins't looking? Ot maybe I could wear all my clothes, on top of each other, and say I'm feeling a bit chilly ...
Sophie Kinsella
#46. Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ...
W.C. Sellar
#47. He who kills even one unbeliever of those who rule over us, whether he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God.
Eric Bogosian
#48. I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.
Edward Hirsch
#49. Sure, I've always been into the Big Bang theory of passion, but as something thoretical, something that happens in books that you can close and put back on a shelf, something that I might secretly want bad but can't imagine ever happening to me.
Jandy Nelson
#50. Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#51. One of the great problems facing men is their failure to realize the fact that a child possesses an active psychic life even when he cannot manifest it, and that the child must secretly perfect this inner life over a long period of time.
Maria Montessori
#52. 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
#53. I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
Anthony Bourdain
#54. Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.
Patti Smith Just Kids
#55. You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.
Stephen Gaskin
#56. I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation.
Ariel Seraphino
#57. I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
Laura Benanti
#58. That the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated the republic, not because it suppressed this wild freedom, but on the contrary, because it held the reins too loosely.
Stefan Zweig
#59. Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.
Jonathan Cainer
#60. With Browns' ticket prices what they are, you just know that all those dads who brought the entire family to sit in the 'dog pound' are secretly calculating how much blood they're going to have to sell next week to put groceries on the table.
Dennis Miller
#61. And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.
John Osborne
#62. To a drone I'd have a tiny heat signature, like a squirrel or something. A secretly very, very deadly squirrel.
Brandon Sanderson
#63. That below the main stage were unknown others on which different dramas played out, secretly affecting the lives of everyone upstairs? She
Dean Koontz
#64. Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.
Charles Hart
#65. I had spent so much time secretly scared of rape that in that moment I was hardly even afraid anymore. Or rather I had moved on to my next fear - what happens when it's over? Would I be left there, alone? Injured? Or worse?
Amber Dawn
#66. Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.
David Mitchell
#67. It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
Annie Dillard
#68. Secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.
Tom Sutcliffe
#69. Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#70. I was following you.' - Jace
'Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.' - Simon
Cassandra Clare
#71. I guess it's just this feeling that my body is secretly all wrong. Which means any guy who assumes I'm normal is going to flip his shit if we get to the point of nakedness. Whoa. Nope. Not what I signed up for.
Becky Albertalli
#72. You forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood ...
John Geddes
#73. You call her pumpkin?" My sister's voice was filled with awe. "Does she actually answer?"
"Well, she pretends to hate it. But secretly, I know she loves it. Her face goes all soft and everything.
Kylie Scott
#75. He'd grown unused to woods like this. He'd become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things.
Michael Montoure
#76. When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.
Robert Kennedy
#77. When we can only be happy for the success of those less fortunate, we are secretly undermining our own success.
Charles F. Glassman
#78. I want to act in a Tarantino movie and be a vixen in one of his films. Maybe I'll secretly drop an episode of 'Flesh and Bone' in his mailbox and see what he thinks.
Sarah Hay
#79. All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
Walter De La Mare
#80. I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
Berkeley Breathed
#81. The worst that could happen is you two get into a fist fight, in which I will referee but secretly be in your corner.
Oh really?
Really. I'll even rub Vaseline on your face when he isn't looking.
What would I do without you?
You'll never know.
Em Wolf
#82. Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream, nobody is too old for cartoons, bald men are sexy, chocolate is the best medicine, BIG books are better, cats secretly rule the planet, and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#83. True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.
Philippa Gregory
#84. Outwardly we should practise the shravakayana, inwardly the bodhisattvayana and secretly the vajrayana.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#85. I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.
Angelina Jolie
#86. Later in the summer your grandfather dies, and you're secretly glad. You have a place to put all your sorrow now, one that people will understand.
Lena Dunham
#87. When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.
CrimethInc.
#89. Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.
Rob Thomas
#90. Not only had she paid him attention, but she had secretly taken more pleasure in him than in any of the others.
Anne Tyler
#91. Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you're secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.
Jessica Sorensen
#92. As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.
Elena Ferrante
#93. Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.
Tom DeMarco
#94. There's only 2 reasons that you hate gay marriage;
1. You're dumb, or 2. You're secretly worried that dicks are delicious.
Joe Rogan
#96. 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
#97. August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#98. Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.
Kim Chernin
#99. The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#100. The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of most of the world - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.
Noam Chomsky
