Private Mode Characters

Famous quotes containing the words private, mode and/or characters:

“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.”
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)

“Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)