Quotes About Privacy

A secret's safe'Twixt you, me, and the gatepost!

I give the fight up: let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

N]ot my name, my secret idea of myself.

Debes aprender a despertar la curiosidad de la gente dejándola vislumbrar algo de tu vida privada —las causas por las que luchas, la persona de la que estás enamorado (por el momento)—, algo que parezca revelar un elemento de tu personalidad. Déjala fantasear e imaginar.

There is no such thing as a secret—not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and newspaper presses.

The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed.

I know the internet is the stuff a paranoiac's dreams are made of.

An entire generation's correspondence and memories had vanished into this mysterious entity the antiquarians called 'The Cloud'.

He looked like a lodger who always kept himself to himself, or a nightwatchman who disappeared in the morning as soon as the day shift arrived.

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

when what they do is hidden, men sometimes deal with strangers in ways they wouldn't if there were other eyes to see.

The best way to keep a secret is to tell no one

Some things just shouldn't be talked about, and I don't care if you will be letting that fool gleeman tell any kind of tale he wants. It isn't right or decent." "I never saw or heard or smelled anything that couldn't be talked about," Tam said

Throughout this book, we've referred to the balance between the benefits and dark sides of the Age of Context. Perhaps the most complex, controversial and sometimes volatile dark side is the issue of user privacy.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

We always hate people who surprise our secrets…

Only lonely people keep diaries

Why didn't you tell her it was no business of hers?" said Eben angrily. "Old Flora Jane had better mind her own business.

Shut the windows, draw the curtains, keep the rumour out!

Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.

Maybe my behavior is less about what I'm hiding and more about wanting to keep things hidden. Secrecy feels like power. And safety.

That's what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love.