#Privacy Quotes

“It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.”

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.”

“Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.”

“Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

“I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.”

“The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.”

“My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.”

“I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.”

“I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives.”

“Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.”

“The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.”

“Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.”

“I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.”

“Everyone should keep someone else's diary.”

“I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.”

“Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.”

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

“I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the road. There's this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don't know anything about me.”

“I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.”

“I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through.”

“They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.”

“I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.”

“Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data”

“I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.”

“Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?”

“You can take better care of your secret than another can.”

“Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.”

“An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.”

“There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding”

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.”

“...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.”

“Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects”

“I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.”

“We should wash our dirty linen at home.”

“I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.”

“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.”

“But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.[Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]”

“Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.”

“It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.”

“The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.”

“I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.”

“I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.”

“Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.”

“Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they'll say, 'Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?' And they'll start tailing me. And I don't mind.”

“It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.”

“When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.”

“It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.”

“Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.”

“I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.”