Quotes About Discretion

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Never tell your resolution beforehand.

The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.

Feldvebel samo raširi ruke, sleže ramenima, stište usne i sklopi o?i, tako da mu lice dobi neki lukav i u?tiv izraz, nepomi?an, slep, gluh, kakav ljudi mogu da steknu samo dugogodišnjim radom u drevnim i trulim administracijama, u kojima se diskrecija odavno izrodila u bezdušnost, a poslušnost u kukavi?luk. List bele, neispisane hartije još je re?it prema nemom oprezu toga lica.

If It's Not Your Story To Tell,Don't Tell It...

Yeah. They used to bang, and people tend to blab after a bang." "I'll be sure to guard my tongue." "It's usually tired from all the work during the bang," she pointed out, and made him laugh. "True enough.

Cops are good at keeping secrets.

admiro la discreción en los demás. Si tuviera otra vida, elegiría ser un hombre discreto y de confianza. Pero esta es la vida que tengo, la que me ha tocado en suerte. Soy, por desgracia, lo que soy.

I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.

knew without question what I had seen. Adelaide and Penelope's mother could now, at last, rest in peace. I also knew without question that this information would be best kept from my husband. There is no point in trying to convert those who don't believe.

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.