Double Life Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives. — Keith Green
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a… — Anna Brownell Jameson
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.… — Jorge Luis Borges
I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both. — Yvonne De Carlo
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor — Bill W.
I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have… — Elisabeth Eaves
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another. — James Harvey Robinson
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the… — John Phillips
I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two? — Leon Wieseltier
If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves… — Stephanie Klein
We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's… — Greg Kinnear
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere… — Louis Kronenberger
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus… — Martin Amis
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at… — Allison Pearson
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars,… — Larry Kramer
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody… — Bill Condon
During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A.… — Ken Jennings
In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they… — Herman Koch
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. — Oscar Wilde
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence… — Anne Carson

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