Secretly Quotes

Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not. — Thomas A Kempis

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. — Lu Xun

If someone hates you, secretly they are admiring you. They deserve you love and not your hate. — Debasish Mridha

Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface? — Victoria Laurie

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine? — Mahatma Gandhi

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. — Richard B. Garnett

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing. — Sydney J. Harris

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. I think mathematicians also believe this. At — Paul Graham

All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. — Walter De La Mare

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. — Stephanie Perkins

I'm secretly afraid of clowns. But it's not a secret now ... dang. — Hayley Williams

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Truthful man:
He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy. — Idries Shah

I'd rather have an enemy who admits that they hate me, than a friend who secretly puts me down. — Karen Salmansohn

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger ... secretly, in my room. — Christina Ricci

I wondered how those traits translated during sex. Was he secretly soft and gentle or rough and controlling? Hot damn. — Anonymous

When you secretly love someone it makes you an amazingly gentle and loving human being. — Prassant Kevin

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. — Joseph Campbell

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it. — Paul Downs Colaizzo

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work. — Patricia Marx

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. — Montesquieu

Submissives are not greedy, she reminded herself, even if they secretly want to be. — Red Phoenix

when we seek advice from others, deep inside we wish the advice given to us is the one we are secretly already wishing for in our hearts — Anita Papas

I was physically revolted by and secretly frightened of those round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and orangeworms hair. — Toni Morrison

I secretly want to be a zebra. That is why I always wear stripes. — Louis Tomlinson

Society is secretly driven by sales — Peter Thiel

I pause in garages, sheds and roofless barns touching things, identifying objects once secretly coveted. — Tom Gillaspy

There's only 2 reasons that you hate gay marriage;
1. You're dumb, or 2. You're secretly worried that dicks are delicious. — Joe Rogan

Wasn't it enough that I was secretly giving her the chance to break my heart? — Christina Lauren

I secretly want to raise my hand and say, introvert in the building! — Krista Ritchie

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is. — Sarah Jessica Parker

We made a deal. I can top, but not bottom."
"Are you secretly a gay man?" Zachary eyed her curiously. — Tiffany Reisz

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went. — Wilfred Owen

Hope knows no fear.
Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.
Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. — Sri Chinmoy

She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard. — Rick Riordan

Is this where you reveal you're secretly a serial killer and you're taking me to where you're going to bury my body in a shallow grave? — Lolita Lane

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy. — Matthew Settle

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day. — Dan Pearce

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Outwardly we should practise the shravakayana, inwardly the bodhisattvayana and secretly the vajrayana. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes. — Laura Benanti

Hey.. Kitten..Are you Secretly Ninja? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere. — Annie Dillard

If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws. — T.D. Jakes

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly. — Joseph Conrad

If everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos. — Elin Hilderbrand

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find. — Elfriede Jelinek

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing. — Jhumpa Lahiri

In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them. — Jane Hamilton

I secretly went to auditions, to open calls. I was ashamed. Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends were not that supportive. — Kathrine Narducci

I secretly want to skydive, even though it's my greatest fear! — Robin Wright

Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now. — Rita Rudner

I secretly want to shave my head. — Zendaya

I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say. — Lady Sovereign

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more. — Sara Paretsky

And busyness has become a cultural symbol of status. Even though people say they're complaining, they're secretly bragging. — Carnegie Mellon

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else. — Don Marquis

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception. — Cindy Crawford

I respect those who don't secretly hate me. — Toba Beta

I think I look a little like a pumpkin," whispered September, secretly delighted. "I'm all green and orange. — Catherynne M Valente

And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me. — John Osborne

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him. — Charles Caleb Colton

Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers — David X. Cohen

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. — J.K. Rowling

Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds. — Clive Sinclair

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to. — Francesca Lia Block

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.
What are you running from?
What are you waiting for? — Sanhita Baruah

Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast. — Francesca Lia Block

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere. — Blake Lively

I know you secretly agree with me," Conner said, bumping her shoulder with his. "Conner, — Chris Colfer

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing. — Steve Buscemi

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. — Rita Rudner

And like most big families, they were loud and secretly thought they were funnier and a little more special than everyone else. — Jennifer Close

Nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.'" "I — Cassandra Clare

Those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect. — Donald Miller

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. — William Least Heat-Moon

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant — J.M. Coetzee

But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already — Steve Dublanica

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it. — Will Ferrell

If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not. — Megyn Kelly

Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Special emotions that arise only in a dark corner unknown to other people, where the real and the unreal secretly mingle. — Haruki Murakami

Whoever envies you is secretly convinced he is inferior to you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

don't build a park bench if you secretly love Frisbee. — Jon Acuff

We all judge others secretly, it is part of human nature. — Kieran Jamie Lee

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce

Women could protest from now till piss flowed uphill, but the truth was, there wasn't one didn't secretly love a killer. And — Thomas Pynchon

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. — Erica Jong

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then. — Damien Hirst

I secretly want to be a rapper! — Rachel Bilson

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. — Ellen Willis

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves? — John Waters

The value of darkness can never be measured
if you don't break its cheap spell secretly treasured — Munia Khan

I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it. — Elizabeth Banks

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association. — Gail Collins

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. — Edna O'Brien

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act! — Sigourney Weaver

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood? — Anita Desai

Im evertthing your mother warned you about..
But secretly always desired !!! — Wayne Turner

Do all the women in the world secretly know each other?" Sim asked. "Because that would explain a lot. — Patrick Rothfuss