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Quotes About Confidentiality

Don't put your trust in a bad friend nor even trust a good friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
~ Unknown
There's no privacy for the violently dead.
~ zelda popkin
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
~ Chanakya
There are good leaks and bad leaks.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
He laughed. He had a similar appliance in his truck, a Lo-Jack, and where it was installed nobody knew. "I get it." "Good man. If you have any questions or concerns, you can call us, right?" "Right.
~ Diana Palmer
Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
~ Don DeLillo
You understand it's not a matter of strategy. I'm not talking about secrets or deceptions. I'm talking about being yourself. If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
~ Don DeLillo
The thing that hovers over every secret is betrayal.
~ Don DeLillo
Privacy is the foundation of free societies.
~ Don Tapscott
He hesitated, himself offended by the next question he had to put to her. He told himself that he was like a priest, a doctor, and that what people told him went no further, but he knew that wasn't true, knew that he would respect no confidence if it would lead him to find the person he was looking for.
~ Donna Leon
Do not, as long as you live, ever again allow your real name to be coupled with your home address.
~ Unknown
She'd feel better later on if she'd kept a few of these things to herself, Joel thought. Or would she. I would. But I'm not Poll.
~ James Agee
I don't think it's right to unburden your own heart by laying the load on someone else's. Some secrets are better left untold.
~ Lynn Austin
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
~ Lytton Strachey
As she watched it leave, she felt like the helpless victim in a backward country where the police ran rampant and rights were nonexistent. It was simply wrong. She was being bullied by the cops because of her association with Jeff. Now her property was being confiscated, and her clients' confidentiality was compromised. She had never felt so helpless.
~ John Grisham
She also sent away her confidential secretary and decipherer, Raulet. He was a Guise retainer
~ John Guy
to wall cross [where investors agree to receive nonpublic information, keep it confidential, and not trade on it] every
~ Unknown
You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
~ John Steinbeck
Git, Ma said. They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
~ John Steinbeck
You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.
~ Johnny Depp
I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.
~ Cheryl Hines
There are secrets in all families, you know.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide
~ Joseph Goebbels