The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want. — Arthur D. Hlavaty Copy Share Image
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. — Jack Penn Copy Share Image
“I have always considered that there is a great deal of difference between keeping one's own secret, and keeping a secret for… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone. — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Every man should believe in something. If not.. he would doubt everything, even himself.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're… — Alex Sanchez Copy Share Image
Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“Even you, o Princess, in your cold room, watch the stars, that tremble with love and with hope. But my secret is… — Giacomo Puccini Copy Share Image
The mission of the Secret Service (to keep the president of the United States safe and secure) is, by its very nature,… — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The stars could have burned out around us, the moon could have fallen from the sky, and I wouldn't have known it.… — Saundra Mitchell Copy Share Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image