A Quote by Kenneth Tynan

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

Kenneth Tynan

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Kenneth Tynan
English - Critic
April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Kenneth Tynan

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

Frank Warren

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

Sigmund Freud

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

Andrea Riseborough

A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.

Henry Taylor

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Maximilien Robespierre

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

Martin Amis

I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.

Theresa Rebeck

The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

Sigmund Freud

I really like knowing secrets, and once I do know that secret, I can keep it. But if I'm on the outside and I don't know the secret, that's a different story. I will try with all my power to get the secret out of the person who knows.

Ryan Lee

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

E. L. Konigsburg

Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.

Frank Abagnale

We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

Peter Greenaway

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Abraham Maslow

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

Sigmund Freud

I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits.