Private Quotes

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business. (Chester A. Arthur)
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. View quote
John Updike
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! View quote
Margaret Fuller
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. View quote
Horatio Nelson
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence Abolition of private property. View quote
Karl Marx
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. View quote
Lauren Bacall
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you. View quote
Billie Holiday
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. View quote
Solon
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. (Felix Adler)
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. View quote
Newt Gingrich
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. View quote
Joseph Addison
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. View quote
Thom Gunn
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. View quote
Rosalind Russell
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. View quote
George Santayana
Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. View quote
Helen Thomas
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
A princely mind will undo a private family. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. View quote
Plutarch
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. View quote
Michel de Montaigne