Quotes About Discretion

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.

Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

De gustibus non disputandum [There is no accounting for tastes].

He should, at least temporarily, take the less dangerous course of acting like a private citizen.

Helga never will admit that she is clever, yet I find she discovers from me what she wants to know, and I suspect hides successfully the small matters of which she in her wifely discretion deems I had best remain ignorant. Being thus able to manage me, she was equal to coping with the butler.

Being prudent does not mean being fearful.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

I'm not going to discuss things that are internal party matters and things that are not supposed to be in public domain.

How I try to balance relationships and being in the public eye is not telling people my business. That's what makes it work for me.

We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.

I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.

I'm private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.

There are certain things that only me, my friends and family should know. It's not everyone's business.

We also need a fund that can say 'no'.

I buy things through the ShopStyle app on my phone, then have them delivered to a neighbour so Oliver doesn't see them arrive. When he's out, I collect them, cut off the labels, and bury them deep in the recycling box under the wine bottles.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

I did my first interview in 1995 and was asked about my private life. I said, 'Why would I tell you? I don't see the logic in anyone knowing that about me. For whose sake? Nobody wins.'

My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block.

Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank.