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| "Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?" | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |  |
| Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it. | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | |
| . . . her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. | Gilbert Parker | The Right of Way | |
| He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites--and escapes. | Joseph Conrad | Victory | |
| "There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets." | Gilbert Parker | Northern Lights | |
| The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind . . . | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| "The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another." | George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion | |
| "She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm." | Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
| There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods--violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple clouds; a snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret. | John Galsworthy | The Forsyte Saga | |
| "Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms." | George Bernard Shaw | Arms and the Man | |
| "Can a husband ever carry about a secret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of it? I knew it by his refusal to talk about some episodes in his American life. I knew it by certain precautions he took. I knew it by certain words he let fall. I knew it by the way he looked at unexpected strangers." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Valley of Fear | |
| "There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses." | George Bernard Shaw | Mrs. Warren's Profession | |
