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Quotes About Confidentiality

Quinientos a la semana y una puerta con pestillo.
~ Virginia Woolf
The dog that fetches will also carry. (Translation If someone reveals another's secrets to you, the same person will reveal your secrets to the world.)
~ Latin proverb
Para guardar un secreto, lo mejor es que lo sepa el menor número de gente, ¿sabes? Por eso, la Guardia
~ Laura Gallego García
And while we're talking about being used and abused, you should know that there are some things you tell and some things you handle by yourself, the best you can.
~ Laura Wiess
Anything I need to know?' said Ruby. 'Uh huh, RULE 1: KEEP IT ZIPPED.
~ Lauren Child
RULE 2: IF YOU WANT TO KEEP SOMETHING SECRET, DON'T LEAVE IT LYING AROUND.
~ Lauren Child
Magellan brought with him many of Portugal's most precious and sensitive secrets: information about secret expeditions
~ Laurence Bergreen
We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.
~ Cees Nooteboom
My work had been successful. I cannot disclose the nature of the operation as the agency may have other work to do on it.
~ Charles A. Siringo
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.
~ Charles Dickens
Mr. Carton," she answered, after an agitated pause, "the secret is yours, not mine, and I promise to respect it.
~ Charles Dickens
Few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. ... I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror
~ Charles Dickens
If doctors as a whole aren't bound by a duty of confidentiality, patients generally will be less forthcoming, and the general confidence that the public reposes in the medical profession will be reduced.
~ Charles Foster
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
~ Charles Grassley
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
~ Greta Garbo
A secret should be kept a secret," murmured Conan Doyle, now picking up crumbs from his plate with his forefinger. "Once it is no longer a secret, it becomes a serpent—it goes where it will.
~ Gyles Brandreth
Don't wash family linen in public, or with anyone except family.
~ James M. Cain
It's one of his rules, his super-secret-spy mind-set. No discussing business in front of strangers.
~ James Patterson
I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.
~ Jim Sturgess
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
~ Oliver North
...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.
~ Stephen King
How hard it is for women to keep counsel!
~ William Shakespeare
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
~ Cardinal Richelieu