Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

I don't think you're entitled to read my mail between my daughters and me.

if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.

I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

I keep my phone number unlisted and rely on my associates to handle all voice mail, e-mail, faxes.

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

There are problems connected with infidelity and problems connected with being faithful at any cost, and I am for letting those concerned choose the problems they'd prefer. There need not be one rule for all. Infidelity is enlarging and fragmenting and very very dangerous, but it has been known to retrieve people as well as marriages, so it can't be only bad.

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

I'm not usually an eavesdropper,but i dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.