Top 455 Secret Quotes

It is obviously no secret that I earn a lot of money. But it is also no secret that I give most of it away. I don’t live a luxurious life. I drive a small second-hand Fiat. I don’t have to worry about money, which is itself a privilege. But I never had any anxiety that I would lose my identity.
Henning Mankell
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Norman Rockwell
I don’t think it’s any secret I’ve never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.
Brian Sandoval
Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.
Condoleezza Rice
President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for NATO and his willingness to consider leaving it.
Tom Malinowski
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
Deepak Chopra
Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs – Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It’s kind of a secret. People say to us, ‘Why did you get that?’ And we say, ‘No reason.’
Marilyn Manson
Victoria’s Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
Cara Delevingne
I have a show on MTV called ‘Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous.’ I think that’s a secret to a vast majority of America.
Bo Burnham
The secret is not to care what anyone thinks of you.
Julie Burchill
In our case, we focus on quality, and we have a very simple model. If we show fewer ads that are more targeted, those ads are worth more. So we’re in this strange situation where we show a smaller number of ads and we make more money because we show better ads. And that’s the secret of Google.
Eric Schmidt
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.
Edward Snowden
Our plans for ‘Superman?’ I can’t say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It’s like working for the government, like I’m on a covert mission.
Zack Snyder
The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
Nelson Rockefeller
When it’s a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.
Jack Black
The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That’s the big secret.
Joel McHale
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men – particularly if they are married – knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
Oswald Mosley
It’s not a secret that I’m, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.
Aldous Harding
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us – public, private, and secret.
Robert Fulghum
The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.
Shirley Knight
Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up wi

Cartoonists’ dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.
Frank Miller
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt
Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.
Billy Graham
Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they’re left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.
Bob Geldof
My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
Dan Brown
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn’t make you less of what you were. You are still you.
Tony Snow
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
Jerry Saltz
Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia Woolf
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
Thich Nhat Hanh
A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you’re not tired. It’s a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.
Jessica Capshaw
I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
Deepika Padukone
Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.
Hamid Karzai
Focus is the secret to success. Focus and enjoying whatever it is you’re doing.
A. J. Pritchard
I don’t think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it’s no longer a secret.
Jim Coleman
There’s no big secret to training. But different body, different training. With me, you have to build muscles but also stay flexible and stay kind of soft, which I am naturally.
Alexander Zverev
The secret to having an epically beloved bakery is consistency.
Christina Tosi
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute.
James Geary
In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend’s life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
Rachel Joyce
So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they’re all in bed with one another. It’s no secret over here.
Imogen Heap
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
A. S. Byatt
I am a gay man. It’s not a secret, but not something that everyone would necessarily know.
Leo Varadkar
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had a dream and saw me perfectly. He was a prophetic dreamer, like Martin.
Alveda King
Well, that’s the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
Les Baxter
The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
Jesse Helms
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Edgar Quinet
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won’t bother me.
Greta Garbo
When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy’s stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn’t get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
Olivia De Havilland
There's no secret to working with kids. They either cha

There’s no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don’t charm you and you feel you’re stuck with them.
Jerome Robbins
I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.
Frank Shorter
Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.
Morihei Ueshiba
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
Golda Meir
I didn’t have the easiest time growing up; it’s no secret. We were just poor.
AJ Lee
It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.
Jules Verne
I have a secret love of jazz.
Carly Rae Jepsen
The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.
George Lucas
The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.
Jaime Lerner
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.
Reza Aslan
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
William Dean Howells
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
Richard Perle
It’s been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it’s been given to me. I wouldn’t be anywhere without Victoria’s Secret.
Candice Swanepoel
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
I’m prepared to try to talk to a very beautiful girl. I learned a fantastic secret, which is that the most beautiful woman in the room is not being spoken to because she’s too intimidating. They’re not looking for somebody beautiful; they’re looking for somebody to amuse them.
Ben Miller