In Private Quotes

#1. Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.

Jennifer Weiner

#2. In the American oligarchy, the President is a temporary chairman of the board who is there to take responsibility for actions decided in private sessions. He is there to sell policy more than to make it.

Diana Johnstone

#3. Public behavior is nurtured in private; earthshaking measures come form careful steps.

Zicheng Hong

#4. The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County.

David Jolly

#5. It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.

Tony Robbins

#6. Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Mark Twain

#7. I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.

Lee Trevino

#8. Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body.

Lewis B. Smedes

#9. Before she turned around to face him, she wiped away the tears that had started down her cheeks. Nancy didn't cry much, but when she did, she cried in private.

Carolyn Keene

#10. It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin
every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands ...

Charlton Heston

#11. People are rewarded in public for what the practice for years in private.

Tony Robbins

#12. Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.

David Berman

#13. Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.

Jojo Moyes

#14. Writing is active. It requires your fully conscious self. You need to show up and show us your gift. Until you do that, you're just practicing in private. Playing around. Kidding yourself. Don't do that.

Jeff Goins

#15. Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.

Lisa Bevere

#16. Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?

Leslie Stephen

#17. It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

W. Somerset Maugham

#18. But the intimacy, the smallness, also made me feel shut out; and I found myself hurrying past the inviting little doorways with my head down, very aware of all the convivial Sunday-morning lives unrolling around me in private.

Donna Tartt

#19. We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

Charles Colson

#20. Were you going to tell me you usually kiss your one-night trollops in private?
He laughed. The free-ringing sound held a spark of pure pleasure, unforced and rich with surprise.

Janny Wurts

#21. Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book tour stories.

Jonathan Dee

#22. I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers
all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences
it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

Peter Greenaway

#23. It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Oscar Wilde

#24. I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

Mick Mars

#25. Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Frederick Buechner

#26. My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#27. The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private. It has to be put on a stand so that people may see its light and give praise to our Heavenly Father.

Pope John Paul II

#28. Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.

Leslie Howard

#30. What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders. If not, we will poison our spirits and it will manifest in the presence of our leaders.

John Bevere

#31. For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!

Epictetus

#32. How do you know I didn't bring you out here to dispose of you in private?

Koushun Takami

#33. But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

Janice Dickinson

#34. She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Patrick Rothfuss

#35. I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm hands upon me in public and wounded me in private, your noble face hid your filthy ways, and your sorrow was but laughter.

Jenny Jay

#36. I don't like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.

Dr. Seuss

#37. Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness.

John C. Lennox

#38. That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

Herbert Spencer

#39. we sell our souls in public and buy them back in private, among

George Orwell

#40. Today there are bars of light on the rug, but Muse Cat prefers his tomato box where he can dream in private ...

John Geddes

#41. If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

Molly Ivins

#42. We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.

Barack Obama

#43. Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

Dean Kamen

#44. 'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.

Tina Brown

#45. You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

Sam Harris

#46. What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

Noel Gallagher

#47. Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.

Shawn Amos

#48. To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.

Samuel Parr

#49. When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

Pope Pius XI

#50. Living a religious sexual lifestyle is tantamount to living a lie.
Religion distorts our sexuality when the majority of religious people live one life for the public and another in private. It can be as simple as living as a "happily married" couple when you are both miserable with your sex life.

Darrel Ray

#51. I don't want anyone watching me change. I will do all my changing in private. In public I am, always, the finished thing. The right thing, for the right place. A chrysalis is hung in the dark.

Caitlin Moran

#52. I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.
[The Guardian, 15 October 2013]

Neil Gaiman

#53. The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

Gregory Maguire

#54. It [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation - practiced with another person of the same sex - and thence into total homosexuality.

Spencer W. Kimball

#55. The two men continue to despise each other today, although they must do so in private, as legally required.

Ashlee Vance

#56. In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility.

Nina Easton

#57. There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private.

Jesmyn Ward

#58. Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

Alexander Pope

#59. To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

Al-Shafi'i

#60. There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

Bill Scott

#61. People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

Samuel Johnson

#62. It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

Oscar Wilde

#63. These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

James Otis

#64. Every effective person must be able to sell and teach, whether in private or to a group in public. This applies equally to skills and talents as it does to products and services.

Archibald Marwizi

#65. I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

Danny Kaye

#66. Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Scott Stossel

#67. An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

Timothy Noah

#68. Angela Merkel in Private is even more miserable than she looks in Public.

Nigel Farage

#69. The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress ... Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud ... Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

Winston Churchill

#70. How about Oversized Dickhead?"
He shrugged. "Didn't hear you complaining about my oversized - "
She shot to her feet, jostling the table. "Can I speak with you in private?"
"You need it right now?" He feigned exasperation. "We're in the middle of dinner, woman. You're insatiable.

Tessa Bailey

#71. Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

Francis Crick

#72. I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

David Blunkett

#73. In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.

Tom Brokaw

#74. Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather see injected with bleach.

Dave Franklin

#75. I don't necessarily put on an act when I go on Jay Leno or dress differently in public than I do in private. I'd like to think I'm the same person, more or less.

Mila Kunis

#76. In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

Tacitus

#77. It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.

Julia Glass

#78. The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

Samuel Smiles

#79. If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

Timothy Noah

#80. Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Brian Herbert

#81. I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

Stuart Symington

#82. If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public.

Zicheng Hong

#83. Imagine that - a werewolf who lets a girl pee in private. Little bits of coolness in my totally fucked-up life. This place was full of surprises.

Elle Casey

#84. The Queen, in love with love, returned her royal consent. [allowing newlyweds to honeymoon in private instead of appearing at Court to Queen Elizabeth I]

Bertrice Small

#85. In private, I may wear a bikini, but at the public beach with my kids, I would change bathing suits because they do not want to be hanging out with some old broad in a bikini.

Christie Brinkley

#86. I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.

Francois Hollande

#87. I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Women know what it means to have a body. They understand its difficulties and frailties, its glories and pleasures. Men think their bodies are theirs alone. They tend them in private, even in public.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#88. Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

Swami Vivekananda

#89. I don't even like to cry in private.

Lynn Coady

#90. I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

Jim Rogers

#91. What is expected tends to be realized.

What you say to yourself about yourself in private is what you become

Marie Lenay Rogus

#92. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.

Ivan Reitman

#93. It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Michel De Montaigne

#94. Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

Thomas Jefferson

#95. It was a politician's gesture - a vulgar public gesture by a man who in private, among his own kind, would take wincing pains never to touch anyone.

Kurt Vonnegut

#96. Prostitution is illegal in many places, but porn is not. But what is porn if not sex for money, caught on camera? What the law actually prohibits then is having paid sex in private and not allowing anyone to watch.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#97. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

Pierre Trudeau

#98. But ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

Akira Kurosawa

#99. I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

Wendy E. Long

#100. Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Edwin Louis Cole