Maintaining Confidentiality Quotes

I'm a private person, I'm shy about people knowing things. And I'm really shy about my medical (care). It would be good if I could just go and heal and then when I decided to go out, it would be okay. It seems that there are areas that should be off-limits.

We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still, we must consider all circumstances as secrets intrusted which would bring scandal upon another if told.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.

I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.

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.

So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option).

If you don't say anything, you can't be called upon to repeat it.

I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.

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

So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

Generally, I do not talk about people - family or friends. This is how I am.

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.