Quotes About Discretion

I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.

Weinig mensen kunnen het nalaten zichzelf hoog te achten met betrekking tot de kennis die zij zich eens hebben verworven, zelfs als zijn deze zijn kwijtgeraakt. En als zij niet erg bescheiden en discreet zijn, zullen de onverteerde flarden die zulke mensen zich gewoonlijk van het Latijn herinneren, hen bijna altijd op een of ander moment belachelijk maken voor degenen die er wel goed van op de hoogte zijn.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh

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

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

I think I have already told you that there are certain things which it is not necessary to discuss, and this is one of them.

Comme la vie serait pleine de choses charmantes si nous pouvions compter sur la discrétion absolue les uns des autres.

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded, and disbursed only when absolutely necessary.

Just do the job, move on, don't leave any tracks. The rest was flotsam and jetsam.

I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

Like everybody and trust no one.

Never trust a man who combs his hair straight from his left armpit.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.

Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.

Neither coquetry nor love is imbued with discretion.

I'll take that as my cue to mind my own business

Because some things are meant to be private.

Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.: