Mark Twain Quotes About Privacy

• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Sheep, Two

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.62, Univ of California Press

• No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Men, Privacy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.404, Courier Corporation

• What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Men, Race

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9238, Delphi Classics

• And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

  Mark Twain

  Crush, War, Race

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories”, p.143, Diderot Publishing

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