(664 quotes found)
“Morality is a private and costly luxury”
Henry Brooks Adams
“The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights”
William Blackstone
“Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.”
Truman Capote
“I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!”
Salma Hayek
“In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private”
Benjamin Franklin
“Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.”
Charles Krauthammer
“Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me, A sign was painted said: "Private Property", But on the back side, it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me”
Woody Guthrie
“If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.”
Will Durant
“Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is -- the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.”
Winston Churchill
“It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public”
Oscar Wilde
