Quotes About Discretion

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

I can say whatever I want. So do not bring the kids. It's definitely rated R.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper: paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you really want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Honestly, I don't want to get into two grown men's personal business...I like both of them as a person and I love Mayweather as a boxer so I leave it up to them to handle.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant.

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

There were many kinds of freedom, and the most precious ones were secret.

To Dick's mind, the flow of information should be channeled with discretion, with an unambiguous interpretation controlled by the people at the top.

Girls," said Rostnikov. "Go into the other room and pretend you are doing homework. You can listen from there.

The interpreter, however, is the shadow. The key is to be invisible. She is the only one in the room who hears the truth, a keeper of secrets.

I don't do much on social media. I don't really want people knowing about my life.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.

Some things a lady doesn't tell.