Quotes About Privacy

Elaine Oliver is one of those people who thinks she needs to yell into a cell phone and cannot imagine anyone else might hear her conversation. 'I'm stiff from that yoga class Juana made me go to!' she was shouting, presumably to Dad. 'I did something to my groin area. ... Sure, you can massage it later.

This is the only time I will ever tell, I say to myself.

Don't read my papers," I moan. "Don't." He steps back. "It's up there for anyone to see. Sorry.

Don't worry,' she told him. 'I am exceptionally good at keeping secrets.' - Frankie Landau-Banks

She had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.

He should know no one intimately, least of all a woman.

But in public who shall express the unseen adequately? It is private life that holds out the mirror to infinity; personal intercourse, and that alone, that ever hints at a personality beyond our daily vision.

She disliked confidences, for they might lead to self-knowledge and to that king of terrors—Light.

Ser homossexual num ambiente britânico formal e legalmente avesso ao que era visto como um desvio da norma levou sem dúvida Forster a dar ao corpo seu devido valor. Não escondeu suas preferências sexuais dos amigos próximos mas nunca as assumiu publicamente; manteve um longo relacionamento com um homem casado embora ele mesmo, Forster... vivesse sozinho — ou com a mãe.

It is I who am sorry," said Miss Lavish. "We literary hacks are shameless creatures. I believe there's no secret of the human heart into which we wouldn't pry.

Even when we love people, we desire to keep some corner secret from them, however small: it is a human right: it is personality

the actual deed of sex seemed to him unimaginative, and best veiled in night. Between men it is inexcusable, between man and woman it may be practised since nature and society approve, but never discussed nor vaunted.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

At the same time, we are hard at work constructing intimacy with algorithms, from our willingness to play along with Siri to the things we type into search bars when we think nobody is looking.

When you have the ability to communicate with someone telepathically, people tend to assume you're talking to them all the time, especially if you're not visibly doing anything else.

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.