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Private Quotes by Mark Twain
- Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all,…
- Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
- It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
- It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the…
- And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest…
- We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,…
- Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.
- Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.
- I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when…
- No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
- When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
- Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world…
- The new political gospel: public office is private graft.
- I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my…
- In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched…
More Private Quotes
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay… — Lauren Bacall
- It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. — Lauren Bacall
- When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and… — Lauren Bacall
- Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it. — Michele Bachmann
- It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands… — Michele Bachmann