Quotes About Discretion

All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

Oh, really. This saving-up business—I guess you think you're the only one who missed it. Huh?" "Well… You got a little pissy there for a while…." "Well, John, you told everyone it was ovulation day! You're going to have to learn to be a little more discreet in the future." "Anything

la opción benedictina no invita a mirar el pasado sino afrontar el futuro con la combativa, discreta y razonable esperanza que mantuvo la fe de Charles Péguy, Emmanuel Mounier o Jacques Maritain.

Humor is a silent and polite dynamite which enables you to blow your own way of life sky-high every time you have had enough of it, yet with the maximum discretion and without making a mess.

A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)

nothing is straightforward in the world of literary taste.

Mas o amor tem o grande inconveniente de não guardar a discrição necessária para que os estranhos não percebam. Quando dois olhares andam a falar entre si todo o mundo fica aniquilado para os olhos que os desferem; parece-lhes que têm o direito e a necessidade de viverem de si e por si.

She wasn't comfortable with the term boyfriend even when she did have one, and she hated everybody knowing her private business.

avoid trouble

Dean Malloy eased himself off the bed. Groping in darkness, he located his underwear on the floor and took it with him into the bathroom. As quietly as he could, he closed the door before switching on the light

Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.

It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.

Ask whomever you will but you'll never find out where I'm lodging

Anch'io tratto il mio cuoricino come un fanciullo malato: gli è permesso ogni capriccio. Non dirlo in giro, però: c'è gente che me ne farebbe un rimprovero.

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

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

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

My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

I don't really comment on my personal life because I feel like any comment at all is opening up a whole can of worms. I'd just rather not talk about who I'm dating.

Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.