Weekend Words: Secret
Spectre, the 24th film in the "seemingly unkillable" (in the words of Manohla Dargis) James Bond franchise, opened this weekend, furthering the adventures of the most famous secret agent of them all.
Spectre, the 24th film in the “seemingly unkillable” (in the words of Manohla Dargis) James Bond franchise, opened this weekend, furthering the adventures of the most famous secret agent of them all.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack
For God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
—Ecclesiastes, ch. 12, v. 5
Far-off, most secret and inviolate Rose.
—William Butler Yeats, “The Secret Rose”
If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman, my dear wife, as I begin this very difficult job.
—Gerald R. Ford
If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be a secret agent.
—Elijah Wood
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
—Jean-Luc Godard
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
—Robert Frost, “The Secret Sits”
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
—Oscar Wilde
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
—Diane Arbus
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.
—Isaac Babel, Guy de Maupassant
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
—Hannah Whitall Smith
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
—Lucille Ball
The skies can’t keep their secret
They tell it to the hills.
The hills tell the orchards–
And they the daffodils!
—Emily Dickinson, XVI
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
—Henny Youngman
Neurosis is a secret you don’t know you’re keeping.
—Kenneth Tynan
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
—Sigmund Freud
I’m not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I’m not looking for the secret to life… I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
—Frank Sinatra
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won’t bother me.
—Greta Garbo
