privacy quotes

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

- Margaret Laurence
  The Stone Angel, ch.1.

That should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
Attributed, after pressing the button marked'nurse' when her secretary came to visit her in hospital. Quoted in Clifton FadimanThe Faber Book of Anecdotes (1985).