Quotes About Privacy

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.

You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.

In the Year 2000 men will finally discover that the reason women go to the bathroom in pairs... is to make out.

I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack [in the stall]. and I was like, "If you tell anyone what you've seen..."

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

I was in Covent Garden today having a pizza, and these men who worked there were secretly trying to take my picture from behind the counter. That sort of thing is so odd.