Quotes About Discretion

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

We must never look for discretion in first love. First love is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy be allowed to overflow, it will stifle you.

the walls have ears, but they don't have tongues.

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

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

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

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

I try to keep my private life kind of private.

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Elaine Oliver is one of those people who thinks she needs to yell into a cell phone and cannot imagine anyone else might hear her conversation. 'I'm stiff from that yoga class Juana made me go to!' she was shouting, presumably to Dad. 'I did something to my groin area. ... Sure, you can massage it later.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Listen to everything that is said, and see everything that is done. Observe the looks and countenances of those who speak, which is often a surer way of discovering the truth than from what they say. But then keep all those observations to yourself, for your own private use, and rarely communicate them to others. Observe, without being thought an observer, for otherwise people will be upon their guard before you.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

Another iron door, on which was writ,Be not too bold.

Unlike most people, I kept my mouth shut about the man I was living with.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.