Personal Affairs Quotes

Private matters should be dealt with privately, out of respect for everybody concerned

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

That’s a personal issue that belongs in somebody’s house … something we shouldn’t be sticking our fingers into.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

There's no need to go out in public and give explanations. As long as you know what's going on between two different individuals and what kind of relationship they share, I don't feel that the world really needs to know about it.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.

Mind your own business.

My plumbing is no one's business but my own.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

Mind Your Business

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

I don't like talking about my relationships.

I think everyone needs to mind their own business.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.