Gertrude Stein Quotes

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

I think everyone needs to mind their own business.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

My private life is my own business.

I mind my own business. Too much of attention becomes intrusive at times.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

By the way, you won't put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you?

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

Don't get in my personal life.

I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

I want my personal life to be personal.

I like to keep my personal life private.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.