Secret

Famous quotes containing the word secret:

    In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    I took him for the plainest harmless creature
    That breathed upon the earth a Christian;
    Made him my book, wherein my soul recorded
    The history of all her secret thoughts.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be—not understood, but divined.
    Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)