Quotes About Privacy

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell it to one person, and it's a secret no more.

All men value their own secrets far above those of others.

Silence keeps a secret. I understand.' I

You need a hot bath, Fool. Is privacy still your obsession?" He made a small sound that might have been a laugh. "Torture strips one of all dignity. Pain can make one shriek, or beg, or soil yourself. There is no privacy where your enemies own you and have no compunction, no human compunction at all about what they will do to you. So, among my friends, yes. Privacy is still an obsession. And a gift from them. A restoration in small part of what dignity I once had.

I know you meant no harm by it, boy. But men don't talk about times spent among the pillows with a lady. And assassins don't talk about…our business.

You've learned to guard your thoughts so well, you're almost afraid to let yourself know what they are.

A secret is only a secret as long as only one man knows it.

Is there nothing private anymore?" "Only the things we keep from ourselves," she replied sadly. She

A secret is only yours so long as you don't share it. Tell one person, and it's a secret no more. - Chade Fallstar

I decided then that some secret delights will never be understood by the male species. Such joys are best shared only between girlfriends and should never be revealed to the unappreciative.

The encryption program was 126-bit,

To pry would involve being told an answer I didn't want to hear. So I didn't pry.

What's her name? None of your business. That can't possibly be her name.

I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you're not a vampire.

Somebody is always hiding something.

We count so much on politeness, those of us who are hiding things. We count on people not staring too long, or asking too many questions.

But remember, it's just between you and me!

A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat.

this talk will be a private one with Jonas.

But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.

Would it do any harm, to make of him a dream-lover? It seemed invasive. How would she like it, after all, if she discovered she was starring in someone else's pornographic daydreams? Horrified, yes? Disgusted, to be pawed over in some untrusted stranger's thoughts. She imagined herself so portrayed in Miles's thoughts, and checked her horror quotient. It was a little . . . weak.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

He craved a privacy impossible for the world's most famous banker.