And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard's kitchen mat. - Sylvia Plath
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. - William Cecil
The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. - Joan Didion
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors - that which it loves, and also that which it fears. - Jeff Wheeler
ALONE, adj. In bad company. In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By spark and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the stone, Had cherished secretly alone. Booley Fito - Ambrose Bierce
When you secretly love someone it makes you an amazingly gentle and loving human being. - Prassant Kevin
Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society. - Debasish Mridha
Yes, it is true that beauty is only skin deep, and internal loveliness resonates to the outside; but deep down inside every woman secretly longs to possess the allure of a royal queen. - Terry A. O'Neal
If someone hates you, secretly they are admiring you. They deserve you love and not your hate. - Debasish Mridha
Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. - K.J. Parker
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
The value of darkness can never be measuredif you don’t break its cheap spell secretly treasured - Munia Khan
The things we love are secretly loving us in return. - Debasish Mridha
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. - John Updike
You must be the most beautiful and sophisticated thief I have ever met. Secretly you stole my heart without my knowledge. - Debasish Mridha
I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen. - CrimethInc.
Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for? - Sanhita Baruah
That's the thing about love, it secretly attracts and demands your attention. - Debasish Mridha
Hope knows no fear.Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. - Sri Chinmoy
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp. - Ambrose Bierce
There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both. - Donna Lynn Hope
Her whole existence was calling his name and she had no clue where SHE actually was... He continued his path on achieving his goals because he knew that was the source of her scream... Secretly or not she was the biggest of them all - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
She wasn't entirely sure how she felt, All she knew was that he entered her world And she felt more alive than she had before, secretly wishing he was feeling the same. - Nikki Rowe
But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. - Patti Smith
The love between a man and a woman acts like a mousetrap to lure a man towards a woman enticing him like a pure cheese, but is secretly tied with a strap. - Anuj Somany