Top 395 Secrets Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Secrets Quotes from famous people such as Carlos Mencia, Sarah Pinborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michael Hayden, Ben Hecht, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I've dated many women at the same time. But I told them

I’ve dated many women at the same time. But I told them. I didn’t keep any secrets from them.
Carlos Mencia
Anybody’s life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.
Sarah Pinborough
The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.
Michael Hayden
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
Ben Hecht
What I started to read and most enjoyed while I was a student was an Italian edition of ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.’
Amanda Knox
Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But military and civilian pay and retirement benefits are not state secrets. This has already been done in many state governments.
Grover Norquist
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Nicolas Chamfort
I don’t keep secrets because I’m no good at them!
Miley Cyrus
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
Jonathan Zittrain
What we can do in Singapore may not be doable elsewhere. Some things you know you need: you want efficient government, you want clean government, you want to do away with corruption, you must educate your people. You want to get housing and so on. All these are not such secrets, not so special to Singapore.
Lee Hsien Loong
I normally talk to my players about everyday situations, and there are not really any secrets.
Luis Enrique
Food’s not done until it yields something, maybe its soul or maybe just its secrets, and how long you’re willing to wait for that to happen is a secret all your own.
Tom Junod
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
There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.
Marilyn Monroe
For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they’d take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country’s most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.
Annie Jacobsen
All families have lies and secrets, I don’t mind sharing ours.
Shakin’ Stevens
Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.
Grace Jones
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
Mason Cooley
One of the secrets of Fox News’ outsized success – it’s the most profitable news organisation in the U.S. and, quite likely, the world – is that it saw the country full of liberal occupiers and Fox News’ viewers as the heroic resistance.
Michael Wolff
Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.
Ron Ben-Israel
I’m good at keeping secrets.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
One of my ‘Secrets of Adulthood’ is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.
Gretchen Rubin
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
Being poor sucks… It’s hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you’re trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.
Antony Garrett Lisi
I like there to be some secrets.
Rostam Batmanglij
The FBI frequently arrests Chinese nationals for stealing research-and-development secrets.
John Ratcliffe
When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.
Mike Pompeo
Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.
Alafair Burke
I’m terrible at keeping secrets.
Jonathan Bailey
I can’t tell you all my secrets to how I can eat so many. Someone out there might copy it. But I will tell you this: The night before the competition, I sleep only four hours. That means when I actually do eat, my stomach will want to digest the food quicker.
Joey Chestnut
I am a practicing Hindu and have made no secrets about

I am a practicing Hindu and have made no secrets about it.
Tulsi Gabbard
I spent 90 percent of my childhood playing SNES and N64, and my favorite games were the ones packed with secrets.
Alex Hirsch
I’m always asked, ‘What’s the secret to success?’ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
Dwayne Johnson
That Will Never Work’ is my chance to share all the secrets I’ve accumulated in a 40 years career as a entrepreneur – secrets that can help anyone turn their dream into a reality.
Marc Randolph
There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
Kevin Bacon
Contrarian thinking doesn’t make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
Peter Thiel
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
Nancy Gibbs
I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
Rachel Corrie
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed – for the most part, every family’s got them.
Tyler Perry
Keeping secrets is hard.
Kerry Bishe
I’ll tell you what bothers me. This music business is so crazy. They think everything is a game, or everything is a fad or trend to win. I see people saying, ‘My next album is going to be my honest album, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, my deepest secrets, the soundtrack to my life.’
August Alsina
I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.
Jonathan Franklin
‘Fall on Your Knees’ is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Beauty secrets are meant to be shared with the world!
Devon Windsor
There are two industry secrets to surviving a long day on camera on the red carpet: First, no drinking the night before – ever. You can celebrate after with some bubbly. Second is make sure to use shoe insoles. I don’t care if you are a guy or a girl, dress shoes are painful. Worth it, but painful.
Ross Mathews
I have no secrets. I decided very early on in life that the strongest position was to be completely open.
Miriam Margolyes
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a ‘whisper’ is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife’s ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.
John McAfee
I’m good at keeping secrets, but if it’s not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I’ll tell someone else.
Steven Yeun
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
You’re as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it’s just… it’s been really healing, and I’ve found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.
Molly Bloom
I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.
Isabel Allende
We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.
John Lithgow
Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
Munshi Premchand
I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
Yitzhak Shamir
I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets… because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.
Ruth Rendell
My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn’t be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don’t have too many secrets. I’m a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.
Paul Kane
If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
Barton Gellman
There are so many secrets in our world.
Jenna Morasca
I’ve always been really interested in secrets – how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.
Jill Soloway