Best 44 quotes in «private life quotes» category

But certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

I have a confession to make. I hate voir dire. I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine.

A Lenina le resultaba muy inquietante. En primer lugar, su manía de hacerlo todo en privado. Lo que en la práctica significaba no hacer nada en absoluto. Porque ¿qué podía hacerse en privado?

Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!

If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.

It's all mine, it's all sacred.

I’ve been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings?

Private lives are more important than public reputations.

The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of lightening storms sweeping across fields on summer nights) to elaborations on the value of man's having a life of his own, apart from whatever life he has with his family, a private life that no one knows anything about, "a place he can be himself without concern of disappointment or rejection".

They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private life.

Wearing a mask can thus be a strange thing: sometimes, more often than we tend to believe, there is more truth in the mask that in what we assume to be our "real self.

You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. There are people who are unhappy about your success and your big dreams are just too heavy for them to bear, so they will try to break you into pieces. Extinguishers of dreams are everywhere, and you can decode them by their nosy attitude towards your affairs. That is why its pertinent to keep few friends, talk less about yourself, and focus on other things pretending as if you don't exist. It doesn't make you faded or out of life, but the chances of getting your prospects destroyed will be very slim.

[Adolf Hitler] was always intensely worried about security and people watching or being nosy, intruding on his private life.

It was funny, she thought, that before she had ever had a job she had always thought of an office as a place where people came to work, but now it seemed as if it was a place where they also brought their private lives for everyone else to look at, paw over, comment on and enjoy

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding, even if, as Proust warns is, 'when we discover the true lives of other people, the real world beneath the world of appearance, we get as many surprises as on visiting a house of plain exterior which is full of hidden treasures, torture-chambers or skeletons.

There were three sides to a marriage: public and private and who-fucking-knows, one lived and one performed and one a thundering mystery.

When we keep private matters to our self, then we never have to worry about unwanted voices discussing these matters when we’re not listening.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't.

I'm irreverent, I'm not politically correct, and I feel that I'm protected in my private life because I live a very public private life.

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.

It's nothing sinister but my private life belongs to me.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

In my private life I do what I like. The night is my friend. If I don't go out, I don't score.

I've had my ups and downs in my private life.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.