Quotes About Discretion

Never stand in the middle of two people having a fight, because you'll always come off worse.

I'm very grateful for the other bands and artists that stood up for us with a view to our induction - that's nice of them. But I wish that the Hall Of Fame had had the discretion to ask us first. It's now become a debate in which we are too late to have the final word.

Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.

It's dangerous to talk too much about future fights.

I never fight with a man who's carrying power tools.

I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.

I believe one's sexuality is one's own business. I really don't go around discussing it. Call me 'old school' on that topic.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them [the people] not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.

if I were you, I wouldn't try and track her down." "Why not?" "Because when it comes to Dee, you're better off not knowing where she's going or what she's up to. You'll only have to lie to the authorities later.

But believe me, there's a lot I'd like to say - but I don't think the time is right now.

all claim to an individual taste is bad taste

caution dressed up as wisdom.

I didn't think he would, but I do believe I was right to ask for his discretion.' 'Thank you, Lady Daphne,' Wilson

I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

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

I can't tell you that, sir." The woman's voice had gone from bored-but-friendly to officious-and-stern.

to play everything close to the vest.

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

Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.

When it comes to revamping our bail laws, we can't rely on judicial discretion alone.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.