Accidents Quote by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

— Samuel Johnson

No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true…

— Leslie Howard

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

— Walter Lippmann

The true character of a man is not defined by what he does in front of a crowd but instead by what he does…

— Anonymous

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

— Kevin Conroy

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and…

— Anonymous

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

— Epictetus

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

— James Taylor

We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character.

— Pericles

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

— Alexander Smith