Domestic Privacy Quotes

It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.

But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night.

Television's an intimate medium. It's in our living rooms. It's in our bathrooms. It's in our bedrooms - and we respect that.

The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home.

I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.

Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.

The violence complained of would without question have constituted a battery if the subject of it had not been the defendant's wife …. It will be observed that the ground upon which we have put this decision is not that the husband has the right to whip his wife much or little; but that we will not interfere with family government in trifling cases… We will not inflict upon society the greater evil of raising the curtain upon domestic privacy, to punish the lesser evil of trifling violence.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.

All of us, whether public figures or private individuals, should feel safe in our own homes and not fear surveillance from nosy neighbours.

There's a Shona saying: 'chakafukidza dzimba matenga' - 'What covers the home is the roof,' or 'Every home has its secrets.'

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

… it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.

It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir.