Secret Quotes - Page 12

• However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Real, Kind

  Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.3, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a secret to it, it's no big deal. Before I go out, I put a slice of bologna in each of my shoes. So when I'm on stage, I feel funny.

  Steve Martin

  Shoes, People, Bologna

  "Let's Get Small". Comedy album by Steve Martin, 1977.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Dream, Song, Art

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.291, Carcanet

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.

  James Martineau

  Sacrifice, Self, Voice

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.

  John Galsworthy

  Art, Real, Men

  John Galsworthy (2008). “The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.338, ReadHowYouWant.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.

  James Martineau

  Hands, Remembrance, Faithful

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.

  Austin O'Malley

  Women, Soul, World

  7 Copy quote

• Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

  Stefan Zweig

  Stranger, Advantage, Given

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.

  Mike Tyson

  Care, Togetherness, Loved Ones

  Source: www.esquire.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

  Marcel Proust

  Daughter, Attitude, Women

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way”, Modern Library

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.

  Sarah Silverman

  Dad, Thinking, Adults

  Source: www.theguardian.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.

  Tony Robbins

  Spiritual, Giving, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

  Jessica Chastain

  Keeping Secrets, Waiting, Kind

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Igor Babailov

  Trust, Share, Ifs

  4 Copy quote

• In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.

  Betty Edwards

  Children, Giving Up, Passion

  7 Copy quote

• Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Deeds, Trouble

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [78]

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  William James

  Failure, Men, World

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.129, Library of America

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mean, Men, Discipline

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

  Leonard Cohen

  Kings, Fall, Baffled

  Song: Hallelujah

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

  Arthur Helps

  Importance

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

  Leonard Cohen

  Lying, I Smile, Cheat

  Song: In My Secret Life, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast
  And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.
  Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.
  The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Night, Flames

  "The Dark Night Of The Soul" by John of the Cross, Variant adapted for music by Loreena McKennitt, 1994.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Vampire, Tasks

  "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson". Book by Camille Paglia, 1990.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Hands, Events

  Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.67, Courier Corporation

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

  George Harrison

  Children, Gossip, Devil

  7 Copy quote