Private life Quotes · Page 8

I will not speak about my private life, but I am a professional, and I will always give my best.

— Edinson Cavani

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

— Rozonda Thomas

“My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers”

— Oswald Chambers

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

— Matthew Rhys

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

— James Otis

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Danny Kaye

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

— Fernand Braudel

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you…

— Arsene Wenger

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

— Sophia Myles

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and…

— Joan Jett

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do…

— Sandra Cisneros

If you talk about your private life, it's not private anymore. What I do as a livelihood is for public consumption, but…

— Ken Wahl

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,…

— Oscar Wilde

My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not…

— Marina Abramovic

I have litigated in my private life, and I will say there are many reasons why a judge could be recused from…

— Matt Gaetz

In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings…

— Marian Seldes

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with…

— David Herbert Donald

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order…

— Alexander Graham Bell

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary…

— Victor Hugo

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but…

— Rebecca Solnit

I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy…

— Jill Tweedie

When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it's very sad. Because it's…

— Sarah Lancashire

As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have…

— Bette Davis

“Well, a man’s life is divided into two parts: there is his work and there is his own private life. Two small…

— Helen MacInnes

“Because you deserve a duke, damn it!” A troubled expression furrowed his brow. “You deserve a man who can give you the…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a…

— John Gardner

“She was so plain. Would it kill you to wear skirts more, he had said to her. Would it really hurt you?…

— Meg Sefton

I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must…

— Thomas Jefferson

I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she somehow retreated into private life…

— Agatha Christie

The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in…

— Jonathan Kozol

If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

— Baran Odar

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

— Josh Thomas

I am not going to be the sort of politician who does all that stuff about their private life.

— Liz Kendall

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

— Penn Jillette

One should not poke their nose into the private life of other persons.

— Dutee Chand

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

— Elizabeth McGovern

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

— Elizabeth Bowen

In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

— Thomas Carlyle