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Quotes About Privacy

When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.
~ James Carville
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Taking a shit is always a big production in a war zone.
~ Evan Wright
I always maintain a certain privacy on the sea. One so easily forms acquaintances which become tedious later.
~ Evelyn Waugh
have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason which he is anxious to conceal.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I do not seek to scrape acquaintance with Lady Celia; I do not want my photograph in the Tatler, I have not come to exhibit myself.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Actually that's my secret — I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want you to know. I don't want any one to know.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do you mind if I pull down the curtain?
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want anyone to know.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mountain-climbing cars are built on a slant similar to the angle of a hat-brim of a man who doesn't want to be recognized.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do you mind if I pull down the curtain? -Please do. It's too light in here.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tell me about yourself." And she gave the answer that Adam must have given. "There's nothing to tell." But
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Je préfère ces soirées-là. Elles sont plus intimes. Quand vous n'êtes qu'une poignée d'invités, l'intimité est impossible.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'd rather look at all these famous people in—in oblivion.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anyhow, he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urban distaste for the concrete. "And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tell me about it. Tell me about your private life, Baby, and your opinions. You never do - we always talk about Nicole.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anyhow he gives large parties,' said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. 'And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald