Quotes About Discretion

Journalism is a function, like going to the lavatory, best done at home and not talked about.

Being discreet has never been your strong suit.

Lots of things are true. Doesn't mean you can go round saying them

Lots of things are true. Doesn't mean you have to go around saying them.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have made out with Everett. I'm saying you shouldn't have done it in his mother's scrapbooking room. Location, location, location. You might have disorganized her supplies. Some people are very particular about their chipboard getting mixed up with their cardstock.

This didn't feel like a conversation I had any business overhearing, so I crept for the door to my room,

Catherine usually sat by me, but to- day she stole nearer to Hareton; and I presently saw she would have no more discretion in her friendship than she had in her hostility.

knock yourself out...Or rather don't

At school I was careful not to look like I watched everything, but I did.

Has some married man asked you to be his mistress? If so, give me his name and I will see to it that he disappears.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to ensure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

I mean, you tell me I got a magic button up my ass that'll make me come my brains out, of course I'm curious. But I'm never gonna go there, because gross.

Now you learn some fucking discretion? Fine. Pay me a dollar." John had seen this movie too. He fished out a dollar and handed it over, and Galen crumpled it and threw it at him. It bounced off John's forehead. Galen retrieved it and did it again.

A good trick is to fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. Nothing announces a nosey guest better than an avalanche of marbles hitting a porcelain sink. Plus you'll know which guest is a junkie whore or gutter hype, and you'll know what else to hide. Count your stash or remove the labels from your prescription bottles.

My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

There was a misunderstanding with Barca. Something happened that I didn't like, but I prefer to keep it for myself.

Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

I didn't know if I should tell people that Johnny Cash had an affair with his sister-in-law while his wife was pregnant. How much does the public need to know about a performer?

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

Oh no, I would never presume to give anyone advice, I would not be so bold.

I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.