Quotes About Discretion

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

I really don't care what you do, but maybe it'll keep you busy enough that you'll stop coming over here unannunced and throwing yourself at creatures of darkness.

Ah, Piglet, you must never trust Young ladies from the upper crust.

The act of copulation is like that of picking the nose. It's all right to be doing it yourself but it is a singularly unattractive spectacle for the onlooker.

A man does not rise to become the Queen's butler unless he is gifted with extraordinary ingenuity, adaptability, versatility, dexterity, cunning, sophistication, sagacity, discretion, and a host of other talents than neither you nor I possess. Mr Tibbs had them all.

had gotten in trouble from talking too much.

In later decades, the role of the Vice President would be gradually and substantially enlarged—at the discretion of the President—but at the time of the 1960 election, that was where the office stood. No legislative powers, no executive powers, and obstacles, hitherto insurmountable obstacles, to obtaining any—except what the President might choose to give

am inhibited in expressing myself by the presence of a lady; therefore I cannot adequately discuss your ancestry, personal habits, morals, and destination.

Giving them room is often the better part of valor, especially when you're trying not to make things worse.

So. Ixnay on the direct approach.

Bujaria nuk tregohet duke nenshkruar ceqe ne publik.

It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?

Though she'd never been ashamed of what she'd done, she'd kept it secret because she'd understood that others wouldn't view it the same way she did.

The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.

If you can't be kind at least be vague.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.

Elvis is the soul of discretion.

Unsent letters carry a kind of cruelty. A letter is written as a space shared by two people; by not sending it, its writer claims the power to include and exclude the recipient simultaneously. Out of cowardice or control an act is performed in the name of caring or discretion. Unsent letters should never be written. But what difference is there between an unsent and an unwritten letter? The truth is already there. Self-imposed silence speaks, too, though not to communicate but to punish.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Lise, too, had been invited to join the Project but declined. She knew what they were developing. She wanted no part of it.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Don't do anything stupid.