Quotes About Discretion

You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

discretion is the better part of valour

My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.

She had had to learn that, although it was her nature to seethe, she must seethe discreetly. Unlike the average Pernese, dragonriders were apt to perceive strong emotional auras.

see nothing attractive in behaving like a fool when you don't have to.

She was discreet, and

Walter and I are very fond of some children, but not across the board, not as a species. No

This claim might seem to be an appeal to the old doctrine of "reason of state," which asserted that when issues of war and diplomacy were at stake, those who were responsible for the safety of the nation should be allowed a freer hand, greater discretionary power, to meet external threats without being hampered by the uncertainty attending the cumbersome and time-consuming legitimating processes of legislatures or courts.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Forgiveness is the better part of valor. (Acheron) I always thought it was 'discretion.' (Thanatos) Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. (Acheron)

I believe in having a private life.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

Don't get in my personal life.

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

I don't talk about my private life.

furtiveness maybe, or shame. "May I?

You can be twice as tasty without the show. Just do the business and piss off before you're spotted.

I tipped young Hylas with a sesterce and turned away discreetly while he disposed of it somewhere about his person. Slaves, especially small ones, must resort to certain subterfuges in order to prevent larger slaves from acquiring their wealth, and it is often inadvisable to wonder too much about where our money has been.

of every Perfection to endear him to a Wife's Affections. — But, notwithstanding, I look on myself as the most unhappy of my Sex in out-living him, I must so far obey the Dictates of my Discretion, as