Quotes About Discretion

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

Are you saying that a person is entitled to their secrets?" "Of course they are." She looked at him then, in a funny way, and he didn't much like it. "Do you have secrets?" she asked him.

Son, I can't tell what you're going to be—an engineer, a lawyer, or a portrait painter. You've perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard. We've got to disguise this fellow.

Un caballero es aquel que no habla demasiado de los impuestos que paga ni de la mujer con quien se acuesta

A gentleman doesn't talk much about the taxes he paid, or the women he sleeps with.

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.

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

George looked doubtful, as he frequently did. English discretion, Poirot had observed, had an outward appearance that suggested doubt. Many of the politest English men and women he had met over the years looked as if they had been ordered to disbelieve everything that was said to them.

Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

All truths are not to be told.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

Orchestration is the elimination of discretion, or choice, at the operating level of your business.

I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

I would not get to know every single thing that happens in Sports Direct.

My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.

I don't like people knowing about my business, and my situation, so I try to keep out of people's situations unless they come to me and ask for help.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

All men are mad in some way or the other; and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen, too—the rest of the world.