Quotes About Privacy

Sometimes I'm at stool all night." 507

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.

If you marvel at your good fortune, you should marvel in secret; never let people see you.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

But what galled our audience, really, is the fact that our friendship grew out of wanting to interest each other. We wanted the world to have no part in it.

What makes you feel safe when you go to sleep at night? Being able to check and see that your secrets are still hidden.

And Barron is probably right—we should give this up. Not for the reason he's saying but for the one that's implied. The one about it not being okay to lurk around outside buildings, spying on girls you like.

At least no one is privy to my thoughts. Stupid as they are, they remain my own.

If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location.

I say, because if she doesn't want to talk about that part, she doesn't have to.

I cannot share my secrets with her, even to brag. And I admit that I desperately want to brag.

You went through my things?" The sudden flatness of his voice was unnerving. But Charlie rushed on, her hurt finally alchemizing into anger. "That's right. I found the license. And then I found the newspaper story about how you murdered a girl, and then yourself," she said. "You want me to feel bad about invading your privacy?" "Yes," he said, rubbing his hand over his face. "A little. I don't know.

I thought news was despicable. It was publicly-supported gossip, invasion into the lives and sufferings of strangers, and the love of it represented an unconscionable desire to destroy the privacy of people whose lives had been thrown into turmoil.

Nobody outside a marriage can really know what's happening on the inside of it.

Therefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

But women like Tess didn't seem to have that need to share the ordinary facts of their lives, and that made Cecilia desperate to know them.

It was her only real secret, so it was a pity it wasn't juicier.

It was interesting how a marriage instantly became public property as soon as it looked shaky.

Well, if it was a diary, Joy certainly would not read it. Absolutely not. That sort of gross invasion of privacy was only appropriate for one's own children.

He liked his friends, but he had no interest in hearing their personal problems and he therefore couldn't share his own. He

It was interesting how a marriage instantly became public property as soon as it looked shaky. She