Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell

...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Harbor no secrets - they create dark places in the psyche.

She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on every penny." "Pick that up." She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.