Ana Patricia Botin Quotes

I'm not exposing anything thats private - that's one thing I won't do.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I'm good at keeping secrets.

Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

When I make a promise about keeping something in confidence, I do.

If someone tells me something and asks me to keep it a secret, I always do.

Obviously I'm not prone to leak secrets left, right and centre.

I'm actually really good at keeping secrets.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.

Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.

Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.