Quotes About Privacy

Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men

If you're smart, you keep happiness to yourself.

Wherever you go online, the Big Computer knows what you want before you want it. It's ready for you and waits patiently, humming. It knows where you will be tomorrow and what you will be doing, and it carefully calibrates the shame you carry with you in hopes that you will buy something to restore your peace of mind.

A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying." ?Charles Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Keep yourself to yourself.

If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.

I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

cada uno de los seres humanos es un profundo secreto para los demás.

If doctors as a whole aren't bound by a duty of confidentiality, patients generally will be less forthcoming, and the general confidence that the public reposes in the medical profession will be reduced.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

Indeed, a man's library is a sort of harem, and I observe that tender readers have a great prudency in showing their books to a stranger.

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.

Pseudonym: writing under a false name so that one may write more truly.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

Everybody hears whispered gossip and rumors clear across town. But nobody hears the scream next door.