#secretly

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#continuing #government #important #inflation #part

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#back #back-up #get #go #i

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #concrete

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#afraid #competitors #manufacturers #many #march

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

#ajar #all day #cat #day #door

I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request. ↗

— William Tyndale

#accept #appointed #divers #hear #i

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#done #flowing #good #good man #green

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them. ↗

— George Weinberg

#happier #lot #many #people #punish

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else. ↗

— Timothy West

#along #assessed #club #done #either

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#any #art #because #good #i