Quotes About Privacy

If he's not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside free from the attentions of inquisitive children, which was a mild term for the likes of us.

somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

There you go, wading in your clodhoppers through our private territory.

She had never told us on, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend.

There were six bedrooms upstairs, four for the eight female children, one for Welcome Finch, the sole son, and one for visiting relatives. Simple enough; but the daughters' rooms could be reached only by one staircase, Welcome's room and the guestroom only by another. The Daughters' Staircase was in the ground-floor bedroom of their parents, so Simon always knew the hours of his daughters' nocturnal comings and goings.

Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on. H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.

We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose.

Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.

Sometimes, I imagine how great it would be if we could live our lives without bothering other people.

That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.

A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.

She came to her own private conclusion, which she tucked away in a drawer, and silently went back to her meal.

Once you've hidden something, you have to keep it hidden.

A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.

Un caballero es aquel que no habla demasiado de los impuestos que paga ni de la mujer con quien se acuesta

Los deseos no deben contarse a nadie

A gentleman doesn't talk much about the taxes he paid, or the women he sleeps with.

had unconsciously crossed part of the yard, and was now standing under the lower branches of the mulberry tree, still at an age where anything I couldn't see couldn't see me.

all women are unknowable. They all have at least one secret that they are keeping from everybody else. A secret that changes everything you thought about them.

Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still having sex?

But there is not space to mention all my friends and indeed there are things about them hidden behind the wings of the cherubim, things to sacred to set forth in cold print.