Secretly

Famous quotes containing the word secretly:

“Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.”
—Edna O’Brien (b. c. 1932)