51 Metaphors for secret

Dost thou not know what, in the royal ear, The Múbid saidbefitting Kings to hear? 'Untold, a secret is a jewel bright, Yet profitless whilst hidden from the light; But when revealed, in words distinctly given, It shines refulgent as the sun through heaven.'

" So spoke the Major, in the simple wish to exalt Tom in a quarter where he hoped to get him practice; and his "secret" was a mere jest, unnecessary, perhaps, as he thought afterwards, to pass off Tom's want of orthodoxy.

The true secret of their success is their industrious utilization of past experiences according to the program outlined above.

a secret of that kind is a death-warrant of itself.

My secret was my ownand his.

The secret of it all was confidence in their leader.

" The perfect ideal for my life, then, is that I live always in the realm of the things that please God; and the secret by which I may do so is here unfoldedby living in perpetual, unbroken communion with God: communion with which I do not permit anything to interfere.

"The grand secret of the improvement found to be derived from these establishments, is their constant tendency to remove evil example and misery from the little creatures during almost the whole of their waking hours.

His secret is no longer his secret.

Falkland's Secret My life has for several years been a theatre of calamity.

She wanted to be fascinating; but the real secret of her beauty, in this case, was the whim that was carrying her away.

"Without going into affairs which do not concern you," said the Frenchman, answering for her, "I think you will recognize that the secret of the Charity League was quite sufficient excuse for me to request a few minutes alone with the princess.

The Lord Advocate said it had always occurred to him that one great secret of collisions at sea was the present system of lights, which made it impossible for the vessel at once to inform another vessel what it was about.

I inadvertently revealed my most cherished secret to youit were unworthy a man of honor to betray it to any one.

And perhaps this was fortunate; otherwise Monk must have seen that his idiotic secret was out, the sport of ribald mirth, and the situation must have been precipitated with a vengeance and an outcome impossible to predict.

One great secret of their success was their constant assumption that what was to be done had been done already.

More than twenty years ago Sir Henry Maine, speaking of the war of American Independence, said, 'Next to their stubborn valour, the chief secret of the colonists' success was the incapacity of the English generals, trained in the stiff Prussian system soon to perish at Jena, to adapt themselves to new conditions of warfare.'

Pride in some particular Disguise or other, (often a Secret to the proud Man himself) is the most ordinary Spring of Action among Men.

The great secret of the long and enduring success of the Order of St. John was their capacity for adapting themselves to the changing needs of the times.

The secret was ill keptthe discovery spreadmany great conversions were madehouses were blazing in every part of the Celestial Empire.

" They fenced very well, these two, with their respective secrets to keep; but the man fenced best, his secret being the most momentous to shield from discovery.

The secret of the active power of the arts at this time was the conscious or unconscious resort of those who practised them to the springs of Nature, from which the streams of all true Art proceed.

The secret of his invariable success was the impetuosity and vigor of his charge.

That secret of a continuous life which the universe knows by heart and acts on every instant cannot be a contradiction incarnate.

It is the custom to say that the secret of such men is their profound belief in themselves, and this is true, but not all the truth.

51 Metaphors for  secret