It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.
—Stephen Chbosky in The Perks of Being a Wallflower
In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
—Peter Matthiessen
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.
—Jean Cocteau
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
—Lawrence Durrell
Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.
—Myrtle Reed
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
—Horace Walpole
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
—Henny Youngman
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
—Kin Hubbard
You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.
—Deb Caletti in The Six Rules of Maybe
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
—Aphra Behn