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Quotes About Privacy

One may know your secret never a second. If three, a thousand will know.
~ James L. Nelson
A man's house is his castle.
~ James Otis
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
~ James Otis
Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!
~ James Patterson
Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!
~ James Patterson
After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.
~ James Scott
You are a product to dragnet surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, Comcast and Verizon. Your ideas are rarely your own, rather you are little more than a pawn to their perception steering initiatives to get you to read, believe and buy what they put in front of you. The first step to breaking out of this faux reality matrix is to stop using Google, Bing, Yahoo, Comcast and Facebook.
~ James Scott
You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet surveillance data providers like Google, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook and LinkedIn. The true threat is coming from the private sector surveillance profiteers.
~ James Scott
When people start talking about enjambment and line endings, I always shut them up. This is not something to talk about, this is a private matter, it's up to the poet.
~ James Tate
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
~ James Thurber
the secret visible only to me: blooming in the darkness and never once mentioned by name.
~ Donna Tartt
I became expert at making myself invisible.
~ Donna Tartt
when two friends discuss money, the third friend should invariably be asleep.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Francis Crawford's face in this fleeting moment of privacy was filled with ungovernable feeling: of shock and of pain and of a desire beyond bearing: the desire of the hart which longs for the waterbrook, and does not know, until it sees the pool under the trees, for what it has thirsted.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
If time allowed, I should be delighted to discuss my private life in every choice particular with all of you, but it really isn't relevant.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Does anyone—Jerott?—know a nice clean strumpet who doesn't have the pox and will sleep in my room tonight to discourage Richard? She needn't stay beyond half an hour, and I don't want to meet her.' 'And that's a bloody waste,' said Jerott belligerently. 'And it's going to stay a bloody waste,' said Lymond tartly. 'I want a little privacy, not to work up a joint reputation as Hophni and Phinehas.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
~ Dorothy Parker
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.
~ Dorothy Parker
THIS TIME THERE would be no witnesses.
~ Douglas Adams
which is why he always concealed them
~ Douglas Adams
Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
~ Douglas Coupland
Keep your treasure to yourself.
~ Douglas Coupland
Every man should be content to mind his own business.
~ Aesop
Conversations are always dangerous, if you have something to hide.
~ Agatha Christie