Hidden Quotes
1704 quotes by 1178 authors
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I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that the audience is…
— Vincente Minnelli
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
— Tacitus
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In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
— Isak Dinesen
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Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
— Blaise Pascal
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Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.
— Unknown Author
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Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise,…
— Germaine Greer
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What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.
— John Steinbeck
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A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.
— Francois Mauriac
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For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those…
— Primo Levi
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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to…
— Italo Calvino
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I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about…
— Immanuel Kant
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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
— Werner Erhard
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It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
— Jean Racine
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From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.
— John Florio
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The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.
— Guy Finley
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We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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My home in Dallas is wonderful. I can walk everywhere. It's a pretty good hidden secret, Dallas. There are wonderful restaurants and a wonderful nightlife.…
— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
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It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from…
— Soledad O'Brien
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