#secrets

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. ↗

— John le Carre

#confidence #greatest #her #history #i

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#defenseless #editors #flattery #giving #guise

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. ↗

— Paul Valery

#man #more #others #secret #secrets

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets. ↗

— David Copperfield

#magicians #reveal #secrets #unspoken

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves. ↗

— Henry Timrod

#deep #demons #dreams #each #elves

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#amendment #association #countries #first #first amendment

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#dip #especially #experience #great #had

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#reveal #revealing #secrets #should #them

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#any #appear #become #came #church

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#keep #man #may #secret #secrets