Quotes About Discretion

My ancestors had to keep their customs secret for fear of death or persecution, so it's common to be secretive and discreet about Regla de Ocha. But it's my family's spirituality, so I don't want to keep it secret.

I've had innumerable affairs. I've never spoken about any of my women.

Yes, I've always been quiet about my personal life and I've never really spoken about what I was doing apart from work.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those - too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

There are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them.

A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her position), respectful of herself and others, observant, attentive, and ethical.

Discretion is the better part of valor

When that raffish assortment arrived at the New York airport, a reporter discovered that one of the shipping cartons was clearly imprinted with the words Petal Soft Toilet Tissue, and he proceeded to publish my guilty secret. It's obvious now, I think, that I've always traveled in the grand manner.

Fine, as the tailor said to the broke and naked knight, suit yourself.

that ass Sloan had kept his mouth shut, they might not have found out about you.

You'll have to learn to live with that fact and the fact is that I don't hand out descriptions of my life to anyone who asks!

that time Mr. Trist handed in his ultimatum. Texas was to be given up absolutely by Mexico, and New Mexico and California ceded to the United States for a stipulated sum to be afterwards determined. I do not suppose Mr. Trist had any discretion whatever in regard to boundaries. The war was one of conquest, in the interest of an institution, and the probabilities are that private instructions were for the acquisition of territory out of which new States might be carved.

For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter.

All confidence is dangerous unless it is complete; there are few circumstances in which it is not better either to hide all or to tell all.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.