„These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.“
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey writer 1835 - 1905
Secrets.
„Secret: A private matter whispered abroad and never kept to oneself. By naming it a secret, we immediately indicate its presence. If we really wanted to keep secrets, we would not have a name for them.“
Rosa: The Death of a Composer
Peter Greenaway5
director de cine galés 1942Citas similares
„I'm not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!“
— Miley Cyrus American actor and singer-songwriter 1992
„Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.“
— Kim Edwards, libro The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Fuente: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
„A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.“
— Marcel Pagnol novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France 1895 - 1974
„We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.“
— Peter Greenaway British film director 1942
Dear Boullée
„How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?“
— François de La Rochefoucauld French author of maxims and memoirs 1613 - 1680
Comment prétendons-nous qu'un autre puisse garder notre secret, si nous ne pouvons le garder nous-mêmes?
Maxim 64 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
— Ally Carter, libro Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Fuente: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
— Hassan Rouhani 7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran 1948
In response to a question from an audience member
2004 speech to the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council
„Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.“
— Alice Hoffman Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952
Fuente: Incantation
„Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!“
— Lewis Carroll, libro Sylvie and Bruno
Fuente: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet
„There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.“
— George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
Crofts, Act III
Variante: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Fuente: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
— Maximilien Robespierre French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758 - 1794
Original French: Le secret de la liberté est d'éclairer les hommes, comme celui de la tyrannie est de les retenir dans l'ignorance
Fuente: Oeuvres, Volume 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSMVAAAAQAAJ p. 253.
„If we knew each other's secrets, what comfort we would find.“
— John Churton Collins British literary critic 1848 - 1908
Variante: If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
— Mark Haddon, libro El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche
Fuente: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
„That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.“
— Ally Carter American writer 1974
Fuente: United We Spy
„Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.“
— Adam Smith Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723 - 1790
Fuente: (1776), Book I, Chapter VII, p. 72.
— Josh Homme American musician 1973
Reported in Jay Babcock, " MUSIC IS NEVER WRONG: A visit with Josh Homme & John Paul Jones of Them Crooked Vultures http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/10/15/them-crooked-vultures/", Arthur Magazine (October 15, 2009).
„We are bound by the secrets we share.“
— Zoë Heller British writer 1965
Fuente: What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
