Hidden Motive Quotes

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

Ambition is the Subtlest Beast of the Intellectual and Moral Field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

The envier praises me unknowingly.

They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.

An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

Naive' is not a word I associate with the Southern Rule. Superstitious, perhaps, traditional, yes, maddeningly set in their way, certainly but not naive." "I meant you are naive. They must have a hidden motive." "This is why I have no politics," said Darvin. "I can't think in those terms.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

When you see a situation you cannot understand, look for the financial interest.

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

For some reason, it didn’t feel right. Victor’s words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he’d come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn’t all. Something else was coming. There is more.

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.