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Private Quotes by Patrick O'Brian
- ...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent…
- I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for…
- I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
More Private Quotes
- I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility… — Banksy
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function… — Dick Cheney
- I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character… — Corin Nemec
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- 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
- He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams