Frederick William Robertson Quotes

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

Where there is mystery there is power.

I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don't know everything.

I almost think there's a mystique to not knowing everything about me.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

I actually got reprimanded by Stevie Nicks, who was like, 'You're sharing too much! You need to leave an air of mystery.'

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Many admire, few know.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

I'll always keep you guessing. I'm living up to the name. It's powerful. That's just what I do.

Sometimes it's nice as an actress just to keep something back about yourself so there's a little bit of mystery.

I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!

We've always kind of tried to keep the mystique. We don't wanna give everybody everything. You give 'em too much, it's just white noise. When we do say something, we want it to be an event. When we go out and do things, we want it to be an event and kind of keep everything else behind closed doors.

I like to keep some things secret. Otherwise, there's no mystique about you.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.