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Quotes About Confidentiality

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.
~ Walter Raleigh
In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.
~ Bryce Wilson
I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.
~ Carrie Fisher
There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.
~ Lord Chesterfield
A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.
~ Lord Chesterfield
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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
There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.
~ Jamie Zawinski
I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.
~ Jane Pauley
You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
~ Shirley Knight
What my mother doesnt know wont hurt her
~ Sonya Sones
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
~ Cory Doctorow
We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.
~ Alfredo Stroessner
Secrets...are the very root of cool.
~ William Gibson
She kept secrets, her own and those told to her. I guess you'd call it integrity
~ William Kent Krueger
Het geheim van het succes is de geheimhouding.
~ David Grossman
Telling secrets to a writer is like embracing a pickpocket.
~ David Grossman
Its coding wheels, stepping a space—or two, or three, or four—after every letter or so, did not return to their original positions to re-create the same series of paths, and hence the same sequence of substitutes, until hundreds of thousands of letters had been enciphered.
~ David Kahn
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
~ Thomas Jefferson
God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!
~ Joey McIntyre
Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.
~ Dave Chappelle
I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!
~ Miley Cyrus