Private may refer to:
- Private (rank), a military rank
- Private (missile), a U.S. step rocket
- Private (band), a Denmark-based band
- Private (film), a 2004 Italian film
- Private (novel series), a young-adult book series launched in 2006
- Private (web series), a web series based on the novel series
- Private Media Group, a producer of pornography
- Privately held company
- Private, a way of encapsulation in object-oriented programming
- Private, a character from Madagascar
Famous quotes containing the word private:
“The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.”
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)
“They make a great ado nowadays about hard times; but I think that ... this general failure, both private and public, is rather occasion for rejoicing, as reminding us whom we have at the helm,—that justice is always done. If our merchants did not most of them fail, and the banks too, my faith in the old laws of the world would be staggered.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)