Quotes About Discretion

This doctrine vastly expanded judicial discretion and opened a loophole large enough to tolerate many trusts.

Confidentially I prefer not to have it known where I am.

I do not wish to have it known now or at any time.

But you must keep this contract secret even from your wife. When you begin to make more money, don't let anybody know it. Don't put on any more style.

What I fear is that he may perhaps talk too much which would be very undesirable

Or the Russians could have had some kind of tripwire in place. Something to alert them if anyone was close to finding whatever they wanted to keep hidden. They're not reckless. They'd know that one document sitting unnoticed amongst how many—thousands? millions?—in a dusty old archive would attract less attention than a fire.

it's unsportsmanlike to engage in a battle of wits with anyone who is obviously unarmed.

There are two important things for full success in life: 1. Don´t tell everything you know.

Patrão, não vamos confundir prudência com covardia; a prudência é uma virtude.

The juvenile adage Never kiss and tell had a sound moral instinct behind it.

People who looked after animals were by and large kind people; they simply practised kindness, unlike those who made much of it. Thus, thought Isabel, are virtues best cultivated—in discretion and silence, away from the gaze of others, known only to those who act virtuously and to those who benefit from what is done.

What I said to you was private. We can have private reservations about a person's work, but that doesn't mean to say that we have to spell those out to him. It's called tact, Isabel!

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

Not everything you plan should reach the neighbour's ears.

I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.