private shame Quotes

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.

I don't like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown... Please don't dig them out!

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.