Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  The Orators, dedication.

   She's private to herself, and best of knowledge Whom she will make so happy as to sigh for.

-Beaumont, Francis
c.1607  The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act1.

I hold no brief for private enterprise.But I have unshakeable faith in individual enterprise.

-Burton, C(harles) L(uther)
  A Sense of Urgency: Memoirs of a Canadian Merchant.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

-Butler, Samuel
Collected in Further Extracts from the Notebooks (1934).

Now, on Friday noon, I am to become a private citizen. I am proud to do so. I look forward to it.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
  Concluding his farewell address to the nation,17 Jan.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Felix Holt, ch.3.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

-Galbraith,John Kenneth
  The New Industrial State.

Poetryisnotanexpressionofthepartyline.It'sthattimeof night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

-Ginsberg, Allen
Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

-Massinger, Philip
  Of the theatre. The Roman  Actor, act1, sc.1.

That grounded maxim So rife and celebrated in the mouths Of wisest men; that to the public good Private respects must yield.

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.865^8.

The highest, the most logical, the purest and strongest form of painting is the mural† It is, too, the most disinterested form, for it cannot be made a matter of privategain; itcannot be hiddenaway for thebenefit of a certain privileged few. It is for the people. It is for.

-Orozco,Jose¤   Clemente
ALL1929  Creative Art.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks thro' Nature, up to Nature's God.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.331^2.

What Chekhov saw in our failure to communicate was something positive and precious: the private silence in which we live, and which enables us to endure our own solitude.

-Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)
  The Myth Makers,'Chekhov'.

The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, freeto change, freeto be a chameleon, freetobe an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about his effect on other people.Power requires that one do just that all the time. Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked.No, we poetshavetogo naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?

-Sarton, May
  Hilary Stevens. Mrs Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, pt.2.

   Private Means is dead God rest his soul, officers and fellow-rankers said.

-Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)
  Selected Poems,'Private Means is Dead'.

   It is the business of a statesman to judge of the expediency of different schemes of economy, and by degrees to model the minds of his subjects so as to induce them from the allurement of private interest to concur in the execution of his plan.

-Steuart (later Denham), SirJames
  Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy.

Whenpeopledonot respect uswearesharplyoffended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Following the Equator, ch.29.

   People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.

-William III also called  William of Orange
  Letter, Jan.

He was meddling too much in my private life.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Explaining why he had dispensed with the services of his psychoanalyst. Attributed.