Quotes About Discretion

There are no real secrets among the rich, it turns out. Just people paid to keep them.

I pressed my ear against the door, trying to work out if it was safe to knock, feeling furtive, as if it were I who was at fault. But all I could hear was music and muffled conversation.

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

I lost something after Hailey died. I'm not sure what to call it, but it's the device that stops ypu from telling the truth when people ask you how you're doing, that vital valve that keeps you deeper, truer emotions under lock and key. I don't know exactly when I lost it, or how to get it back, but for now when it comes to tact, civility, and discretion, I'm an accident waiting to happen, over and over again. Socially, that makes me something of a liability.

La liberté ne dispense pas du tact.

No era un héroe, sino un hombre que se avergonzaba de haber desistido de continuar siendo lo que en su momento había sido: un odiador profundo de la grandeza, de esa obligación de tener que ser alguien en la vida, un odiador del poder. Un amante de los escritores de rostros secretos y de la discreción en la literatura.

He asked if we were really ghost hunting, and I said we were. "What, like officially?" "Officially secret," I said because discretion is supposed to be, if not our middle name, at least a nickname we occasionally answer to when we remember.

I listened to make sure she wasn't coming up the stairs and had a poke through the underwear drawers but got nothing except a vague sense of being really unprofessional.

but I was aware of the "case-by-case" approach and did not object.

Don Francisco Penáguilas, padre del joven, era un hombre más que bueno, era inmejorable, superiormente discreto, bondadoso, afable, honrado y magnánimo, no falto de instrucción.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.

There was a difference, he said, between individuals years of maturity were not always accompanied with discretion, neither was youth in every instance devoid of it.

discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

I never get into the details regarding my own personal situation.

I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.

he recognized the malice which remained alive and kicking in the old man long after discretion had died from a lifetime's neglect.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.