Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to… — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
There is a lurking sense that there is a kind of seedy corruption underlying a lot of public life today. But while… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
My life philosophy is that you need a boring private life if you want to have a more exciting public life. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves - and… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life. — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“But in a few years, as part of their effort to push Jews out of German public life, the Nazis would attempt… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
My point, though, is that if lines have indeed shifted, it's not so much that the younger generation just doesn't care, it's… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The Iranian government has become pretty open about the drug problem in recent years. Opium use is a very traditional, cultural thing… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image