“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
WTF Is…? series, Guise of the Wolf (January 26, 2014)
“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
“If you're watching everybody, you're watching nobody.”
John Gilmore (1955) Internet activist, software programmer and contributor to the GNU project
As quoted in Subject: <nowiki>[IP http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200303/msg00427.html</nowiki> John Gilmore on government trustworthiness and spy gear]
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”
Jim Stovall (1958) American writer
“Nobody does good to men with .”
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
Attributed to Auguste Rodin in: The Nation, Vol. 109 (1919), p. 6: Rodin means without reward.
1900s-1940s
“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Variant: 288: I'm Nobody! Who are you?
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?
“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) French writer, politician, diplomat and historian
Source: The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion